On: A Car’s Computer Can ‘Fingerprint’ You in Minutes ...

[JimLaheyMD]

"In a study they plan to present at the Privacy Enhancing Technology Symposium in Germany this July"

How would this enhance privacy? It seems like it would do the opposite?

[recursive → JimLaheyMD]

This is exactly the reason they would never consider lock-picking techniques at lock symposium.

[fryguy → recursive]

And hacking techniques at a computer security conference.

[bowmessage → JimLaheyMD]

One needs to understand how to thwart privacy in order to gain their own.

[Bromskloss → JimLaheyMD]

I guess it can make sense to give a lecture about war on a peace conference.

[Sanddancer → JimLaheyMD]

At the end of the article, they discuss how the report stresses a need for more secure transmission systems on the CAN bus, as well as potentially including things like permissions-based security

[evanwolf → JimLaheyMD]

It's just another biometric matching system. So it might be used as a form of sign-in to your car's network or data, better than taking your hands off the wheel to key a password. Or a LoJack complement that identifies your car's thief.