Drive around with mobile radio broadcasts beaming images without files extensions to bankrupt Mazda :gigachad:
I had to read that like six times to fully process the headline. That's crazy weird though
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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/
a couple things: there's difficulty of blasting a big enough signal without the FCC finding you. maybe you could do it at close range if you were near a vulnerable vehicle that had the radio on. oh also it's a proprietary standard that requires a number of components to implement, none of which are open source or for sale to an enthusiast. if you somehow did manage to get the necessary tech and build a short range implementation, your only reward is breaking an expensive but non-critical component of certain vehicles, with no direct potential benefit to yourself.
Thank you for your service. I was wondering if it was proprietary and controlled these days.
Most proprietary things aren't particularly hard to reverse engineering if you have the time and equipment. The basic equipment you would need costs tens of thousands of dollars though. Like, all added up together, not individually. Microscopes, signal generators, oscilloscopes, random things from digikey you would order as you figure out you will need them, basic workshop stuff, probes, it all adds up.
that's probably how michael hastings died. his car was hacked to redline his engine and accelerate uncontrollably. i will never buy a car that can be controlled remotely.
https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/
"As of October 2014 the CIA was also looking at infecting the vehicle control systems used by modern cars and trucks. The purpose of such control is not specified, but it would permit the CIA to engage in nearly undetectable assassinations."this isn't a plausible vector for doing anything but bricking the radio
Christ, relying on the file extension to ID image files is fucking stupid. They all have headers for a reason.
to the junior in charge of the 'unimportant' task of writing that barely functional, unoptimized, inefficient file checking method. :fidel-salute:
Can't wait for the future where someone accidentally mass broadcast a memetic kill agent into the VR metaverse.
Go back in time to 1920 when Mazda was founded and show them this headline.
Heads immediately explode due to the immense knowledge differential.
