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A pair of veteran cybersecurity researchers have shown they can use the Internet to remotely turn off a car engine as it drives. In a controlled test for Wired Magazine in the US, they turned on the radio of a Jeep Cherokee and activated other inessential features before rewriting the code embedded in the entertainment system to issue commands to the car's steering, brakes and engine. One of the hackers, Chris Valasek, explains why he did it. PHOTO: Andy Greenberg/WIRED
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