Vol. 16, #33 – August 22, 2011 – Issue #842
Tech Support For My Car?
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T-Mobile provides the connectivity, and we tried to hack into the system just for fun. The mobile hotspot is protected with WEP, WPA, and WPA2 with the last being the default. But the hotspot reached about 40 feet around the car, and when we looked at the logs, we could see the IP address that we tracked down to a fleet management company. Hm.
But you can see where this goes, right? Cars are loaded with high-tech features and consumers are going to need tech support for all this, and of course all this stuff can be hacked into. Think for a moment about all the code that this requires, and the industry standard of one bug per 1000 lines of code. I can already see it, Patch Tuesday for my car, where they plug in the patch and pray all systems will come back up after the reboot. Hey, it starts! LOL.
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The internet of things is now moving to cars?
In a nation of blinking clocks, one has to question the over computerization of stuff.
Do we know look forward to an ISP bill for each car, each person, each appliance, each … ?
Where does it end?
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Reinke Faces Life 
I think it’s cool for passengers but obviously dangerous fro drivers. I use my phone as a hotspot and the kids can watch netflix in the car, but it would be way more convenient if the car was the hotspot.
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