Car hacking just got real

“When I saw we could do it anywhere, over the Internet, I freaked out. I was frightened. It was like, holy fuck, that's a vehicle on a highway in the middle of the country. Car hacking got real, right then.”

Chris Valasek, as quoted in Hackers remotely kill a Jeep on the highway — with me in it, by Andy Greenberg, Wired, 21 July 2019

Valasek and his collaborator Charlie Miller found a way to remotely hack, and take, for all intents and purposes, full remote control of an entire class of automobiles by exploiting a vulnerability in their Internet-connected sound systems. Valasek and Miller’s work shows that hackers could create “a wirelessly controlled automotive botnet encompassing hundreds of thousands of vehicles.”