On: Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway

[usefulcat]

"A much less aggressive (and thoughtful) move would be to contact the researchers directly."

Not conducting this demonstration on a public highway would also have been a much less aggressive and thoughtful move, not to mention less dangerous.

[1337biz → usefulcat]

Finally some IT guys getting how the press works and now you want to change their story to something like "how I hacked a car in my backyard".

[usefulcat → 1337biz]

I understand why they did it this way, and I'm glad that this issue getting more publicity. But that does not mean that the means they chose are justified by the end of greater publicity. They simply did not have the right to endanger the other people on that road without their consent.

[danielweber → 1337biz]

It's particularly because getting big headlines is so enticing and intoxicating that research labs have review boards.