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Re: "Cars hacked through wireless tire sensors"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dan@geer.org)
Wed Aug 11 07:16:33 2010
From: dan@geer.org
To: Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com>
cc: "cryptography@metzdowd.com List" <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:53:46 EDT."
<E8DA8D80-04B3-4A9C-8804-0EEC29C6A65D@lrw.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 01:04:06 -0400
|
| Unlike the work earlier this year, these attacks are more of a
| nuisance than any real danger; the tire sensors only send a message
| every 60-90 seconds, giving attackers little opportunity to compromise
| systems or cause any real damage. Nonetheless, both pieces of research
| demonstrate that these in-car computers have been designed with
| ineffective security measures.
|
Of course, in a place where surveillance infrastructure
is already capitalized (think London), adding the ability
to track bluetooth tire sensors would be so easy... and
self-initializing at the toll stations where the license
plates are read and correlation between plate number and
current radio fingerprint trivially recorded.
--dan
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