Got $60? Reduce your Insurance Rates! Hack Your Car!

For the low price of $60, Eric Evenchick is selling a gadget that will allow a person to use a CANtact to talk directly to a vehicle’s CAN(controller area network)bus through the laptop, connected via USB to the CANtact device that can be plugged into a vehicle’s OBDII port.
Source code is already on Github.

Most vehicles can be hacked remotely. DARPA is currently working on some ‘unhackable’ software to prevent all seen in this video below.

Can someone re-write their vehicle so it tricks user based insurance devices, like the Progressive Snapshot, into always thinking the driver is driving the vehicle safely? Ultimately committing fraud and reducing their rates?

The lesson here is that today’s average vehicles don’t really have any protection against hackers, nor do devices that plug into vehicles. I believe that will change soon as more of these problems get published and enter mainstream media.

This photo below is from 2 years ago… 2 Years ago! What is possible now? The possibilities are endless.

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