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March 8, 2017

https://www.extremetech.com/cars/245475-cia-may-hacking-cars-also-smart-tvs-smartphones-snapchat-whatsapp-says-wikileaks

The CIA may be hacking cars, as well as phones and TVs, according to WikiLeaks

On-board telematics keep you safer, but they also offer another way to hack your car. Throttle-, brake- and steer-by-wire offer the possibility to make it look like an accident.

 

The most current dump of secrets via WikiLeaks says cars are among the devices the CIA has hacked or has been trying to hack. One extreme purpose would be to gain control of the car and possibly assassinate the occupants in ways that would make it look like just another car accident. This claim is in the so-called Vault 7 dump of 8,761 documents Tuesday that WikiLeaks said came from the Central Intelligence Agency.

 

Other claims potentially affect any person in the connected part of the planet: Covert CIA hacking projects can get into Apple iPhone and Google Android phones. Once inside the phone, they could get around the encryption of popular apps such as SnapChat and WhatsApp. Another hack could turn the camera and microphone on a smart TV, particularly Samsungs, into remote listening and viewing posts.

 

How you car might be hacked

Hacking a car is easier if it's equipped with telematics, such as GM OnStar with a two-way cellular data modem. (But it's not the only way.) Already most automakers have a Find My Car feature in case you forgot where you parked in a sports stadium lot. It can also give you current updates or tracking info if you're worried where your teen is at night. If you call the cops, they can track your stolen vehicle. That's how Boston police tracked and shot one of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombers: The Tsarnaev brothers carjacked a Mercedes and the carjack victim told police how the car's Mbrace2 telematics system could be set to tracking mode.

 

Without the hacks, police have sometimes applied for court warrants to enable the tracking module. They have been approved in some instances; in at least one case, a judge rejected the warrant because doing so disabled the emergency crash notification system in that brand of vehicle.

 

Other hacks are possible when the car is close by. Hackers have shown they can take partial control of the car if they can physically attach to the OBD-II diagnostic port, typically with the hacker sitting in the back seat with a laptop and long connector cable.

 

One leaked document(Opens in a new window) appears to be a summary meeting of the Embedded Devices Branch in October 2013 and describes "Vehicle Systems" as one of the "potential mission areas for EDB."

 

*How would you assassinate someone in car? The old fashioned way would be to plant a bomb. Jokers might say you could modify the victim's car to include a Ford Pinto gas tank, GM ignition switch, and shrapnel-spewing Takata airbag. Here's another way: Cars don't have steer-by-wire driving yet (exception: Infiniti Q50), but they it did, you just instruct it to take a sharp right as you drive along a cliff with no guardrail. Barring that, you could order the right front brake to almost lock up, but not the other three wheels, and the car would pivot around the right front wheel and make the same right turn. Or it could steer at highway speeds toward a concrete bridge abutment and keep the airbags from firing. There may be other ways.