Submission + - Remotely Hacking Cars (autosec.org)
An anonymous reader writes: TheTruthAboutCars blogs about a new paper from security researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Washington that demonstrates multiple ways in which a car can be remotely taken over (technical details here). The paper is pretty amazing in general, but they drop the bomb when they take over a car 1000 miles away just by calling it through the car's built-in cell phone interface, upload an IRC client for control (I kid you not! Can you say "car botnet"?) and then track the car via GPS and listen in to everything that is being said inside. James Bond eat your heart out!