I think this shows so many opportunities for smart kids such as building a
career out of breaking things in minutes engineers spent years creating.
This can help them create better safer products.
On Feb 24, 2015 10:53 AM, "Bruce White" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Articles like this and the 60 minutes piece (which I watched) make me
> yearn for the simpler days of automobiles
>
> My first car was a Chrysler Valient four door with a 318 V8 two barrel
> carburetor that could do 100 mph.  I could lift the hood and see the
> whole engine without any wires or hoses in the way.  I could do all of
> the maintenance myself using just a few tools and and a little elbow
> grease.  Tuning the engine and changing the plugs were pretty straight
> forward and didn't require computers.
>
> With today's vehicles about the only thing an owner can do is change
> the oil, flush out the radiator and replace brake pads.  Everything
> else has to be done at a dealer.
>
> Bruce White, CRM, PMP
> Virginia Beach, VA
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> "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your
> balance you must keep moving." -- Albert Einstein
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:29 PM, PeterK <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > A 14-year-old boy (who looked not a day older than 10, by all accounts)
> > went to Radio Shack last July and purchased various electronic parts for
> > about $14. He stayed up all night assembling a circuit board, and the
> > following morning hacked into a new car, remotely gaining access to the
> > vehicle.
> >
> > “There’s no way he should have been able to do that,” said an automaker
> > executive who witnessed the whole performance. “It was a real wake-up
> call.”
>
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