[dba-Tech] The Story Behind Hacking the Jeep

[Jim Lawrence]

"...But there aren't enough people with that knowledge to staff every position in the country with competent technicians..." That statement is crap. It should read, "We are just too cheap to train and subsequently pay knowledgable staff."  

A car, internal working, should under no driving condition be remotely accessible. 

There is of course one small problem and that is that all the separate components of the new cars are interconnected via wifi. The main reason for this is cost...a cheap wifi component costs a few pennies but a direct cable connected to all the computer components costs a few pennies more.     

It is all an accountant thing. Accountants are the people that just about busted the American auto-industry by rendering cars into little more than cheap junk, that nobody wanted (...think Nader) just to save a few dollar per vehicle. Aside: Accountants can also be credited with destroying the US manned space program... 

Now they are at it again...just too cheap to train and pay staff appropriately. Yes, it takes time and yes, it costs money but that is the way it is. 

Jim
 
----- Original Message -----
From: "rockysmolin" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 3, 2016 9:50:00 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] The Story Behind Hacking the Jeep

Stories like this, and like the DMV story, and the hacking of Podesta's
emails, and the use of internet enabled devices to spread a virus, all point
to the same thing - the speed of technology has outstripped the ability of
the society to absorb it.  We know how to make the DMV disaster proof.  But
there aren't enough people with that knowledge to staff every position in
the country with competent technicians. 

People are unsophisticated about their privacy on the internet - there isn't
any.  When you write something and send it to someone over the internet,
there's no predicting where it will end up.

Yesterday one of my former customers, now the customer of the guy who bought
my system, did something so dope-slappingly unfathomable that I called him
to express my disbelief.  I could have written it to him in an email.  But I
NEVER say anything in an email, especially about someone else, that I
wouldn't say to their face.  Emails get forwarded, and forwarded again.  And
who knows where they'll end up?

For the car companies their technology resources are consumed with getting
the stuff engineered right, installed right, and working right.  The idea
that they have to pay attention to security, that people may cause mischief,
has not been on our radar.  Suddenly it will be.

Same with the IoT - that problem will be solved over time by consumers who
will be aware of the security issues and manufacturers who will respond to
them.  

But the pace of advance means that we are responding reactively instead of
proactively. 

Toffler's seminal book on the subject - Future Shock - was prescient.

r

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
Jim Lawrence
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2016 9:18 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] The Story Behind Hacking the Jeep

Your thoughts?

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "rockysmolin" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
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<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>, "Noah Sutton-Smolin" <noahsutsmo at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2016 7:26:32 AM
Subject: [dba-Tech] The Story Behind Hacking the Jeep

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