> "researchers arrested would bring even more attention to this."
Yep.
> Where do you see that in the article? Only thing I read was manufacturers downplaying a wired-in attack they demoed.
No "air gap" between "CAN bus and Internet" equals vulnerable.
We know that. Auto manufacturers know that.
Yet they dismiss the possibility of a hack and continue producing unsafe vehicles. And the trend is toward more vulnerabilities.
I was to lazy to search a direct quote, but here it is now: "Miller and Valasek represent the second act in a good-cop/bad-cop routine. Carmakers who failed to heed polite warnings in 2011 now face the possibility of a public dump of their vehicles’ security flaws.".
Yep.
> Where do you see that in the article? Only thing I read was manufacturers downplaying a wired-in attack they demoed.
No "air gap" between "CAN bus and Internet" equals vulnerable.
We know that. Auto manufacturers know that.
Yet they dismiss the possibility of a hack and continue producing unsafe vehicles. And the trend is toward more vulnerabilities.
I was to lazy to search a direct quote, but here it is now: "Miller and Valasek represent the second act in a good-cop/bad-cop routine. Carmakers who failed to heed polite warnings in 2011 now face the possibility of a public dump of their vehicles’ security flaws.".