Once the car is connected, it is equivalent to opening the Pandora Box.

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Remember the WannaCry virus not long ago? People are required to pay bitcoin to unlock their computers, and thousands of computers around the world are infected.

At that time, there was a "good thing" to get the picture of WannaCry virus in the car, as shown above.

However, have you ever thought about it, if there is a car version of the WannaCry virus?

The film "Speed ​​and Passion 8" depicts this picture for us. Hundreds of zombie cars that were invaded remotely flooded the streets like floods.

Of course, there are exaggerated elements in the movie, because many cars don't have networking capabilities at all, let alone be remotely invaded. However, more and more cars are now becoming "intelligent" and "networked." For example, the current automotive industry is a bit like the mobile phone industry of the past, and is changing from a "functional machine" to a "smart phone."

The problem is that a complete car system is very complex and the code can have hundreds of millions of lines. In this hundreds of millions of lines of code, bugs are just probabilistic issues. So once the car is connected, it is equivalent to opening a Pandora's Box.

In 2015, two hackers named Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek successfully invaded a Jeep free light (match, picture, inquiry). Utilize the vulnerability of the Chrysler Uconnect in-vehicle system to re-enter the firmware with the virus and send commands to the CAN bus to control the car, which can control a car while the car is driving. Even more frightening is that this kind of attack is “can be replicated on a large scale”.

Eventually, the free light incident caused the FCA's 1.4 million vehicles to be recalled and upgraded. After the recall, the two hackers successfully invaded the free light again...

In addition to the eclipse of free light, the well-known Anjixing system has also been invaded.

The specific situation is: the hacker intercepted the communication between the Remote Link app and the OnStar service. Through this app, the owner can gain control of monitoring tire pressure, opening and closing the door, starting the engine, positioning, etc. The hacker claims to be able to achieve "positioning, unlocking and remote start".

From the case of free light and the invasion of Anji Star, the car system is not 100% safe like the computer system. Fortunately, these two cracks were all done by "white hats" and did not cause real damage.

According to the planning of many car companies, 2020 or 2021 will become the first year of driverlessness. In addition, relevant departments of governments are also actively promoting.

As driverless cars get closer and closer to us, car companies are also taking on more legal risks. Because the entire driverless system contains many sub-links, such as cloud services, smart infrastructure and the car itself. Once a car is connected to the network, it becomes a real mobile terminal, and these links are likely to be broken.

There is no doubt that the technology accumulation of the vehicle in the passive safety and active safety (ADAS) of the vehicle is quite profound. However, for car companies, the era of unmanned driving will face more potential threats from the network. In terms of network security, car companies still have to learn from Internet companies.

After discovering software vulnerabilities, Internet companies can issue patches and plug them in time. Various anti-virus software in the user's computer will also help users eliminate potential threats. Judging from the large-scale virus infections in the past, almost no one from telecom operators, Internet companies, and operating system providers Microsoft/Apple will pay for consumer losses.

The problem is that consumer electronics software can have loopholes, but the software of a driverless car can't.

For car companies, they have almost no chance of making mistakes, because once they make mistakes, it is about the personal safety of users. What car companies can do is to focus on “cybersecurity” and put them into action during the development phase of driverless cars, creating an unmanned system that almost no one can break.

Some time ago, Takada airbags, which had a long history of 84 years, caused consumer deaths due to product defects and eventually declared bankruptcy. On the day when the driverless car is really on the road, we don't want to have a bloody lesson because of "product defects."