[ale] [OT] Fwd: Open source coms to your Ford CAN bus

[JD]

When reading this, my first thought was about how many existing hacks were
against vehicles and how did they plan to patch all vehicles 12 times a year as
new ones were discovered.

Would patching even help when the protocols are implemented in hardware?

In 2010, hacks against those tire pressure reporting systems were announced:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2010/08/cars-hacked-through-wireless-tyre-sensors/
"Earlier in the year, researchers from the University of Washington and
University of California San Diego showed that the ECUs could be hacked, giving
attackers the ability to be both annoying, by enabling wipers or honking the
horn, and dangerous, by disabling the brakes or jamming the accelerator."

I am concerned. Very concerned.  Even if they use unique. local-only, wired,
certificate-based encrypted connections, I'm still afraid.


On 02/06/2013 10:10 AM, alan at alanlee.org wrote:
>  
> 
> Android will be in about 30% of all vehicles sold by auto OEMsby model year 17.
>  OpenXC is just the beginning.
> 
>  
> 
> -Alan
> 
> 
> On February 6, 2013 at 9:44 AM "Ron Frazier (ALE)"
> <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:
> 
>> This looked cool so I decided to crosspost it.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Ron
>>
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> From: jebadiah.moulton at atlanta-robotics.com
>> Sent: Wed Feb 06 06:24:34 EST 2013
>> To: AHRC <botlanta at yahoogroups.com>
>> Subject: [AHRC - botlanta] Open source coms to your Ford CAN bus
>>
>>
>>
>> Ford has announced that there CAN network is now open source, well 99%.
>>
>> http://openxcplatform.com/
>>
>> For those who don't know CAN (Controller Area Network) is how all the sensors
> and electronics are controlled and read in any vehicle.
>>
>>
>> I found out about it from http://opensourcehardwarejunkies.com/
>>
>>
>> This podcast is an interview with the developers of the project at Ford.  They
> have designed it so that Android and Arduino people can start writing apps to
> read the CAN network.  They said it is open in the sense that it is a read only
> development kit.  I wouldn't want to be writing anything to my brake system
> anyway.  I feel better about messing with it knowing I can't write anything. 
> Imagine your whole cluster of instruments on your android device or your history
> plotted out for any peripheral in your car.  This is great for racers.
>>
>>
>> Makes me like Ford more.
>>
>>
>> Here is a book I've been wanting to get on CAN.
>>
>>
> http://www.elektor.com/products/books/electronics/en-controller-area-network-projects.1910639.lynkx
>