Gallery: 5 Lessons From the Summer of Epic Car Hacks
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Lesson 1: Hire Car Hackers. Researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek spent three years developing a technique to hack a Jeep over the internet. Even so, they haven't gotten so much as a phone call from the auto industry.
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Lesson 1: Hire Car Hackers. Tesla hired Google's lead bug-hunting hacker Chris Evans in August.
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Lesson 2: Cars Need Immune Systems. Miller and Valasek developed this prototype of an intrusion detection system for cars in 2014.
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Lesson 3: Car Security Goes Beyond Cars. In August, researchers at the University of California at San Diego hacked this common insurance dongle plugged into cars' dashboards to remotely disable a Corvette's brakes.
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Lesson 3: Car Security Goes Beyond Cars. Hacker Samy Kamkar designed this small device that can be planted on cars to intercept smartphone apps' communications to them, giving hackers the ability to locate a cars, unlock it or even start its ignition.
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Lesson 4: Consumers Need To Pay Attention. A congressional bill introduced in July would require a cybersecurity "report card" for new cars.
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Lesson 5: Regulators Need to Wake Up, Too. Researcher Karl Koscher, (L) was part of a team that developed a technique that could hack millions of GM vehicles in 2010. Despite briefing the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the NHTSA allowed GM to take five years to finally patch its security vulnerabilities.
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