Putin’s chauffeur died this way

Which tool here is the one you're referring to?

With the Trump appointment of Gina Haspel (after Mike Pompeo did the initial cleaning work) isn't the CIA controlled by white hats now? Really confused about the CIA!

OLD CARS FTW.

thats the reason why i prefer an old car. no hacking possible.

Remember that "cash for clunkers" thing that was supposedly to "prevent global warming", but was really just to increase profits for car manufacturers by forcing people to buy new cars as all the old ones were scrapped? Guess there was a second motive behind that, old cars don't have computers they can remote control. Wi-Fi/Onstar/Bluetooth gives them the connection and method of attack, cruise control and automatic transmission gives them throttle control, ABS gives them brake control, and power steering gives them steering control.

To avoid this make sure your car has or doesn't have the following:

• NO ONSTAR/WI-FI/BLUETOOTH/CONNECTIVITY OF ANY KIND - No explanation needed.

• Manual transmission - Manual transmissions require the physical manipulation of the clutch to function. This limits them to whatever gear the car is in when they hack it, and the moment you realize what is happening you can quickly open the cluth to cut off all power to the wheels. You can also downshift to slow the vehicle down faster if you were at speed when they attempted to murder you.

• Diesel engines - Diesels are compression-ignited, not spark, so they don't need spark plugs which in all modern vehicles are timed by the vehicle computer instead of mechanically. By the same token, having a car with a mechanically-timed carburetor instead of computer-controlled fuel injectors gives them even less angles of attack.

• No ABS - ABS's legitimate purpose is to prevent your wheels from locking up when you slam on the brakes. When the computer senses the wheels are locking up due to the driver pushing too hard on the brakes, the computer overrides the driver's brake pedal, decreases the braking force until the wheel stops locking up, then maintains that lessened braking force to safely slow the vehicle down. The ABS stays activated until the driver releases the brakes. When hacked, they could easily continuously feed the computer some bogus signals from the "sensor" saying the wheels are locked up to activate the brake override. This results in your brakes effectively being deactivated.

One of the 8,761 internal CIA documents leaked by WikiLeaks on Tuesday reveals that the agency’s Center for Cyber Intelligence has been exploring methods to hack into vehicle systems since at least 2014. As WikiLeaks noted in its release accompanying the documents, “The purpose of such control is not specified, but it would permit the CIA to engage in nearly undetectable assassinations.”

While the anti-secrecy organization makes no specific charges in this regard, this information raises new troubling questions about the car crash that killed journalist Michael Hastings in June of 2013 .

Hastings, who was 33 when he died, was the Rolling Stone reporter who wrote an article in 2010 that led to the removal of General Stanley McChrystal from his post as ranking US commanding officer in Afghanistan. Hastings perished at around 4:30 a.m. after losing control of his car and crashing into a tree while traveling at about 100 mph.

At the time of his death, Hastings was investigating another major figure within the Obama administration’s military and intelligence apparatus, then-CIA Director John Brennan. At the time, police declared that there was no “foul play” involved in the accident. Before the accident, however, Hastings had informed his colleagues that he was under government surveillance. He also suspected that his own vehicle had been tampered with, having asked a neighbor to lend him a car.

What the WikiLeaks documents show is that Hastings’ suspicions about his vehicle could very well have been justified. Meeting notes dated October 2014 show that the CIA has a division known as the Embedded Development Branch which lists “potential mission areas,” such as software and networking devices, as targets for hacking. One of the targets listed is “vehicle systems (e.g., VSEP),” likely referring to the embedded computer systems that play a major role in the operation of modern cars (though the acronym is not spelled out).

Embedded systems are computers designed and built to solve only a few specific problems. They are not designed to take human input, but rather are a combination of hardware and software that is designed to do a specific task as a permanent part of a larger system, such as traffic lights, airplane controls or assembly lines in a factory. While in general the software of embedded systems is hard to change by design, the CIA memo indicates that gaining the ability to control many types of these computers is one of the goals of the agency.

One piece of software in embedded systems specifically mentioned by the CIA memo is the operating system QNX, which the memo states is a “big player in VSEP.” Indeed, according to QNX Software Systems Limited, the software has been deployed in more than 50 million vehicles across at least 14 different brands, more than 50 percent of the market share of modern cars.

more at link: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/03/09/hastings-m09.html

CIA coward murderers and terrorists. CIA are America's enemy terrorist combatants.

The CIA monsters should be drawn and quartered for their crimes.

Disconnect your OnStar unit!