Experts warned about it as long ago as 2010 after researchers
in California and Washington disabled the brakes, changed the
speed readings, switched off the engine and locked the doors
of several cars.
They even demonstrated how an infected CD could be inserted
into a car's player to take control of its safety systems.
And while we could only imagine most of those actions being
done for serious criminal purposes that don't touch most of
us, the ability to steal or lock us in our cars (or out of
them) and alter the speedometer has disturbing implications.
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