14 year old hacks car with self-pieced device, $15
Posted on 20-02-2015 at 12:00 am by Dizono – 20 Comments”
A warning for older readers who sneer at the kids without a driver’s license…
During the annual CyberAuto Challenge, in which students of high schools and colleges can take part, get groups of students with a car assigned with the question of whether they can ‘hack’. That is by the manufacturers, is impossible given, so in practice it mainly means information about the computer systems in the cars and try for the consumer non-accessible features to discover.
They thought they had. A 14-year-old boy had after a few days of explanation and looking around I have seen enough and finished for around fifteen dollars on stuff at the local Radio Shack. in the Evening he struck at the soldering and the next day he managed to with his self-made gadget to gain access to the CAN bus of the car. Although Anuja Sonalker, working as a researcher in organizer Battelle, the possibilities that the small whiz had, rationalizing it as “simple stuff” and “non-critical”, we are slightly more concerned about it.
The boy knew not only the lamps and the wipers on the remote control, he could be also the doors remotely unlock and start the engine. Less dangerous, but fun: it appears that he could even the lights of the car flicker to the beats of the music that he has on his iPhone that happened.
As a 14-year-old, who is undoubtedly very talented – the boy with a few simple tools you already have is capable of quite a bit of features of our cars to hacking, how far does a professional hacker with an expanded arsenal of equipment at his disposal then? Equal the required stuff from Conrad, order is, by the way, who the whiz is, what tools he used and what kind of car (a BMW perhaps?) he had access is for security reasons, not made known. In one of the comments under the article of our American Autoblog-colleagues, suggests someone that it is possible to an Arduino board that can deal with the open source code of the CAN bus system and this can send. This would, however, be physical (wired or wireless via a transponder) to access the OBD port is required. Although that last one is not even very difficult, so they know at BMW.
With thanks to Sjoerd for the tip!