Sunday 28 July 2013

High court bans publication of car-hacking paper

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A high court judge has ruled that a computer scientist cannot publish an academic paper over fears it could lead to vehicle theft.


Flavio Garcia, from the University of Birmingham, has cracked the algorithm behind Megamos Crypto -- a system used by several luxury car brands to verify the identity of keys used to start the ignition. He was intending to present his results at the Usenix Security Symposium.


By: Duncan Geere,


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/28/car-hacking

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