February 17, 2005

Science & Technology:

This is scary

    By Jack Grant

From ZDNet:

Automaker Lexus has denied that the Cabir wireless worm poses a risk to the Bluetooth-capable navigation systems featured in some of its vehicles.

We now have to worry about viruses and worms in our car computers because of the use of wireless interconnects?

I do NOT want my car freezing up because some joker decided to write a worm; it's bad enough with the PCs.

Many improvements have been introduced by using computer controlled fuel injection and timing resulting in increases of both fuel economy and power output. When it reaches the point to where cars are equipped with wireless interconnects (in this case, Bluetooth), that opens up vulnerabilities that I'm not entirely comfortable with in a vehicle that weighs thousands of pounds and can travel at high speed.

This definitely falls in the "there is such a thing as too much technology" bin.


Posted by Jack Grant at 23:34 on 17 February 2005
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