A radio station in Seattle, KUOW 94.9, crashed and permanently bricked the entertainment system in Mazda cars after the station broadcasted images over the air that lacked a filename extension. https://t.co/8npKfgYTXT— Chad Loder (@chadloder) February 9, 2022
"Going back to the video, hacking a car and taking control of its driving and safety operations involves a lot of work that includes dismantling the dashboard in order to connect the computer to the CAN bus of the vehicle. It may be hard to pull but this just goes to show that a car can surely be taken over by a hacker."
typically the entertainment system is not capable of controlling the core functionality of the vehicle
teslas being the exception, because of course
Well yea. But bricking the radios of every specific year mazda that drives by has some sort of value.
Every specific year mazda that happens to be tuned into your FM station when you broadcast
"Going back to the video, hacking a car and taking control of its driving and safety operations involves a lot of work that includes dismantling the dashboard in order to connect the computer to the CAN bus of the vehicle. It may be hard to pull but this just goes to show that a car can surely be taken over by a hacker."
https://www.benzinsider.com/2014/02/can-a-mercedes-car-be-hacked/