Buying a new car
Dec 31st, 2011 by Jesper Kråkhede
Having a large family puts a constraint on available cars on the market. Not all cars will let seven grownups, teens and kids ride comfortable. Having that said I started to look around and eventually found a car that was just what I needed. When starting to discuss the car with the dealer I experienced a funny thing. For the first time ever I understood more about the inner working than he did. No, I haven’t read more about cars; I just know quite a lot of stuff in electronics and computers.
I created a presentation with a few colleagues a few months ago we named: How about an unstealable car? We took a modern car with all its gadgets and computers and applied Jericho Style Security on it. I can´t say that it is possible to build but it sure was an interesting experience to see that Jericho holds true even if applied to everyday objects, not only it-systems.
Going back to the poor car dealer, I asked him several questions regarding internal communication, possibility to access the onboard computers and so on…I got the car quite a few €100´s cheaper.