Jeep Cherokee hack leads to 1.4-million-vehicle recall
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The brightest-eyed proponents of the Internet of Things often seem to envision a world where everything that can have an embedded computer and a network connection of some kind should have those things. Open the door of a modern car, for example, and you're likely to find a sophisticated computer system that's absorbed functions like navigation, entertainment, and climate control into one central interface.
Dig a little deeper, and you'll find that most every onboard system, like the accelerator, brakes, steering, and engine control, are linked together using a standard called the Controller Area Network , or CAN bus. If this sounds similar to the setup of Battlestar Galactica , it kind of is-and recent events on the automotive ...