{"id":244,"date":"2015-07-22T18:39:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T18:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/07\/22\/lege-trend-laws-against-hacking-a-car-hackers-can-take-over-your-car\/"},"modified":"2015-07-22T18:39:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T18:39:00","slug":"lege-trend-laws-against-hacking-a-car-hackers-can-take-over-your-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/lege-trend-laws-against-hacking-a-car-hackers-can-take-over-your-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege Trend: Laws Against Hacking a Car.  Hackers Can Take Over your Car."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reporter for Wired details what parts of a car hackers can control while you&#8217;re driving. It&#8217;s like a self driving car,\u00a0driven by criminals with you in it.<\/p>\n<p>Hackers are able to control a vehicle&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A\/C system, changing the temperature in the car<\/li>\n<li>The radio, changing channels and volume control<\/li>\n<li>Windshield wipers<\/li>\n<li>Windshield washer fluid blurring the windows<\/li>\n<li>dashboard functions<\/li>\n<li>steering<\/li>\n<li>brakes<\/li>\n<li>transmission<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of the car functions above can be controlled from a laptop by a nefarious hacker.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/07\/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway\/\">Wired.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Congress is trying to stop it with the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.markey.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/SPY%20Car%20legislation.pdf\">Spy Car Act<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">Sens. Ed Markey &amp; Richard Blumenthal <\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:18px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);\">\u00a0would require the Federal Trade Commission and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to develop standards to protect drivers&#8217; privacy and to guard against a potentially deadly hack of a vehicle. <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/cybersecurity\/248636-senators-want-privacy-hacking-safeguards-in-cars\">The Hill\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article28368718.html\">Ft Worth Star Telegram\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reporter for Wired details what parts of a car hackers can control while you&#8217;re driving. It&#8217;s like a self driving car,\u00a0driven by criminals with you in it.<\/p>\n<p>Hackers are able to control a vehicle&#8217;s:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A\/C system, changing the temperature in the car<\/li>\n<li>The radio, changing channels and volume control<\/li>\n<li>Windshield wipers<\/li>\n<li>Windshield washer fluid blurring the windows<\/li>\n<li>dashboard functions<\/li>\n<li>steering<\/li>\n<li>brakes<\/li>\n<li>transmission<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of the car functions above can be controlled from a laptop by a nefarious&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-trend","category-motor-vehicles","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}