I yield to no man in the gravity and intensity of my fanboyish appreciation of Stefan Savage, but... people have been hacking engine ECUs (for benefits) for decades. Meanwhile, if I want to kill someone, I'm just going to cut lines inside the car. You know, like they did in Hitchcock movies?
You may not be up on the latest car designs, but attaching the ECU to the Internet is indeed a problem. Preemptive response: no a firewall is not the correct answer to this problem.
Cutting the brake lines leaves physical evidence of sabotage. Messing with the computers is a lot harder to spot. Do police even check for this sort of thing? Would they know how to?
