one for the geeks : Cars hacked into by Bluetooth

[Furore Phil]

A frightening article but yet another reason why kit cars rule :

http://www.elektor.com/news/cars-hacked-into-by-bluetooth.1747885.lynkx?

['The Gaffer']

Quote from link..

"There is no evidence that any of these attack scenarios have been used by criminals, and there's little immediate danger to consumers, the researchers say. "Both Stefan and I still feel perfectly comfortable driving our cars," Kohno says. "This took 10 researchers two years to accomplish," Savage adds. "It's not something that one guy is going to do in his garage."

I say, that said, hype aside, this could be a real threat in the future

[Richard]

You make the assumption that meaningful items in a car can be accessed via bluetooth. No reason to assume that is likely for car running systems, however with the next gen in car connectivity you'll find a lot of techie stuff arriving