There are many problems with self-driving car

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

Computer programs what are controlling the self-driving car are very complicated. And those vehicles are under development, and there is always the driver when those vehicles are operating in some area. Uber has made lots of work about the security of their autonomous driving taxis. And this was the sad accident for that pedestrian.  If there is a single error in a program, the computer cannot control the vehicle. The results would be terrible and sad because the car would kill somebody.


But that kind of news is causing terrible thoughts in my mind. If somebody wants to make murder by using the car as the weapon, might this person able to make the computer program what makes the car as an invincible weapon. And when the normal taxi drives on the road, it would suddenly turn and hit some person.


This is the problem with the self-driving cars. If somebody wants to hurt some innocent persons,  he might just change those car’s controlling program. And the results would be devastating. Also, somebody would want to make assassinations with autonomous vehicles, by connecting their controlling program the thing, what is called as “ghost protocol”. In this scenario, somebody would make the car a terrible assassination weapon. And then the strike is done, would that program terminate itself.


The “ghost protocol” means that in the controlling software would be injected the code, what reacts, when the targeted person is visible. That code makes the car attack to that targeted person. In normal drive, those self-driving cars seem like harmless, but when they would notice the target, that would begin the attack against that victim. The computer of the car would get the image of the targeted person or another vehicle, and then this car would transform real life “Christine”.

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What if the antivirus program transforms as the spying tool?

Kimmo Huosionmaa

Is Kaspersky's antivirus software a spying tool for the Russian intelligence is the very good question. If some antivirus- or firewall software has been used as the spying tool, the results could harm the national security. When we are talking about the use of an antivirus or any other security program as the spying tool, that will give change to the attacker to monitor all data, that goes between the computer and the Internet. But how to modify those extremely safe programs as the spying tool?


The best way is to make the "trojan horse", what just looks like that security program. In this scenario, the hackers just make their own software, what has the same kind of icons than the real antivirus program has, and then they must just route the net traffic to their own server. And then they have full access to any data, what is on that computer. Another way is to put the computer virus or spying program to the router, but the problem of that is that device's operating system is normally Linux, what makes the slipping that tool in the system quite difficult. Making the programs for Linux is different than making them for Windows, but if the monitoring tool can be set in the router, the hackers can monitor all data, what goes thru this device.


The problem of those hackers is that if too many persons will download that program, they would get so much data, that it becomes useless, and in the nastiest scenarios they will send the "sale offers" to the targetted persons, and in this case those persons will pay for those programs, what will steal their personal pictures and other data, what they wanted to keep secrecy.


That most advanced malware software might be stolen from the NSA (National Security Agency) or some other information security authority. Those tools were the national secret, but somebody copied the editors in their USB-stick and then those persons just walked away from Fort Meade. That software has been used to create computer monitor tools, what became public in the case, where the Iranian nuclear program have been monitored. And that software has probably been sold to the Russian intelligence and probably the criminals also have their copies of that complicated software.


But if the person is the good coder, can the necessary programming tools downloaded from the Internet. And in this scenario, the hacker will make the package, what looks like the update package for the antivirus software. This action bases that the antivirus tools must be updated simultaneously, that they can be effectively detected the malware. And if the computer virus will strike in the antivirus software, that might open the back gate to the system, and then all data can be stolen. Then the hackers might cover their crime by destroying the data system by the virus what forces to reinstall the system again, and if the backups were not made, the databases and evidence of the data crime would be stolen forever.

What kind of picture of the hacking is given in the public media?

Does normal hackers this kind of equipment?

Kimmo Huosionmaa

In the beginning of the text is a picture, what I used before. I must ask is it the picture of the real world of hackers? Of course, it is published in some newspapers, but does real hacker this kind of systems? The picture is really taken from the Internet, and it was mentioned originally for the art of the story. In my opinion, if some hackers have this kind of resources, they must have very much financial support.


Most of that kind of persons are not dangerous, but if the hackers are working with international criminals, could those people want that this computer genius will be silent forever, and that's why they might kill this kind of people, what those gangsters think that they are weak rings in their organization. If the criminals are the part of the mafia, they might be very dangerous, and if they think that somebody is useless, they might kick that person off the system, and they can't leave evidence of their actions. The gangsters can play the people like Greenpeace and claim that they are looking for the evidence of corruption etc. , and they might hire hackers to make computer brakings inside the police computers to find the covered agents from their organization, and if the hacker will know too much about their work, those criminals might want to silent this person, because they don't want any witnesses to this kind of crimes like drug trafficking and murders.


When we are looking for the photos, what will jump to our screen, when we are searching the Internet using the word “hacker”,  must we ask ourselves one special question. “Is the hacker this kind of person in real life”? The equipment in those pictures are fantastic, and the working spaces are awesome, but in those photographs are given the picture, that those hackers have very much financial support for their operations. In the real life, most of those people only dream about this kind of equipment and working areas. The problem of the hacking tools is that all the equipment, what is fully downloaded from the net must be registered. In this text, I will analyze the hacking to set myself to hackers position.


If I want to be phantom of the Internet, I would not use the software, what can link straight to my telephone or bank account, and that’s why I can’t use the software like Kali-Linux in my illegal operations. Of course if I were the spectacular programmer and I have lots of time, I could make the hacking software myself, but the programming skills must be very good, and of course, I should have enough time to make that software. In the real world making the hacking tool is not so easy, that the code is properly done in the one hour, and in the real world making the programs is not the synonym for the word “coding”. Making the code is, of course, the big function ft r the programmers, but also testing is the important part of the process. When we are talking about the making the program, we must make one thing clear.


When somebody wants to make the program, that person must not even know how to make codes.  That person must only get the list of the codes, and then connect that code to freeware code editor like “DEV-C++” and then just compile that program, what might be delivered with the World documents. When the mission of the hacking is purely illegal,  that hacker must hide identity very careful. If we are talking about official so-called “white hat” hackers, they can use the official software, what is properly tested. But how the criminal hacker does the test of the programs, and the programming editors sometimes codes the operating systems user information in those programs, what is made by that editor.


This is the thing, what is made to guarantee the programmer’s rights of that product, and that thing can be used for tracking the hackers. Normally the hackers don’t have millions in their bank accounts, and they don’t have very cool places, where the can make their operations. Of course, there is somewhere international gangs, what are lead by military intelligence, but normally hackers can only dream about this kind of offices, what are seen in the picture above this text.  Normal hackers operate in their homes, or they will use some other open networks. Those networks are found from the library or some kind of public places, but the problems are the limits of the batteries. And that's why that kind of connection is unstable, and when the hacker stands on the streets this person might be in danger to be targeted by robberies or some person might stand behind this hacker and see what's going on in this person's computer screen. That's why the hacker needs the secure place where to work without risks. And this is why those persons will normally do their missions at home.

The high-tech allows stealing even the most modern automobiles.

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The problem of the high-tech hackers is that that equipment can be bought from anywhere. There are no special permissions needed for buying the computer or WLAN equipment. The hacking of the automobiles and other remote-controlled vehicles is basically the same thing as the wardriving. The data transmission from the electronic key will route to go via hackers laptop computer, and the hacker can use that signal to open the cars and even use their motor.


The equipment what is needed is simply the WLAN card of the computer. Also, the car thieves might use ECM-transmission to avoid the electronic signal pass to the car, and then the doors will be open. ECM-transmission is the simply radio signal what will disturb the signal of the electronic key, and then the computer doesn’t know that the doors will not be closed, and the alarm system will not be activated. The thieves need only the radio transmitter, that operates at the same frequency than those car keys.


Then they must be sharp and then activate that system when somebody comes out the car, what is interested in the thieves. When the hackers want to operate undercover, they might use normal WLAN-boosters, what can get to the right points with remote-controlled helicopters, and if those booster-stations are properly set up and use batteries, can the hackers operate from the very long distances.


And that will help them to avoid the law. By using UAV-helicopters can the hidden hackers also activate their ECM-radio at the right time. After that,  they can get in the open car and transfer it to the back of the truck, and flee away, with the stolen car in the container. After that, the car might sell in the dark markets for some toy of some gang members or people, who uses them illegal car races or even the escape vehicles for some criminal activities like robberies.

Wtach this movies

1.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARrlhlQiFzM

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeXfCNwMG64

Sources

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