14.05.2010 15:20 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

Hackers can remotely disable your car's brakes, create sensationalist headlines

We think you're going to be hearing a lot about this one over the next few days or weeks. A team of researchers at the University of Washington and the University of California San Diego have determined that, with physical access to your car's ECU, a hacker could "adversarially control a wide range of automotive functions and completely ignore driver input -- including disabling the brakes, selectively braking individual wheels on demand, stopping the engine, and so on." For example, the team was able to connect a computer to a car's ODB-II port, access that computer wirelessly, and then disable the brakes in the first car while

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