- ZDNet, Wednesday, March 16, 2016 9:05 AM
Matthew Garrett, the well-known Linux and security expert who works at CoreOS, was in a London hotel recently where the light switches had been replaced by Android tablets. Garrett, a hacker's
hacker, decided to see what they were doing. A few hours later Garrett had access to the electronics in every room.
While Garrett is a security expert
, this feat
didn't require any elite cracker skills. Garrett explained he unplugged a tablet and put his laptop into the link. He then set up a transparent bridge
. That's trivial for any Linux
network administrator. He then used the popular network protocol analyzer WireShark
to analyze the traffic.Read the whole story at ZDNet »
can't wait to see what Garrett can do to the driver-less car grids, and show how stupid of an idea AUTO-tonimous cars really is.