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6. If you know what killed Michael Hastings, you must be very high up
Wed Nov 20, 2013, 02:43 PM
Nov 2013

You know that no US agency did it, and you have had Hastings under such tight surveillance that you know that no foreign agency did it and no agencies employed my military contractors did it.

I doubt you are that high up. I think you just believe you have knowledge that's impossible for you to have.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/24/michael-hastings-car-hacked_n_3492339.html


Former U.S. National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism Richard Clarke told The Huffington Post that what is known about the single-vehicle crash is "consistent with a car cyber attack."

Clarke said, "There is reason to believe that intelligence agencies for major powers" -- including the United States -- know how to remotely seize control of a car.

"What has been revealed as a result of some research at universities is that it's relatively easy to hack your way into the control system of a car, and to do such things as cause acceleration when the driver doesn't want acceleration, to throw on the brakes when the driver doesn't want the brakes on, to launch an air bag," Clarke told The Huffington Post. "You can do some really highly destructive things now, through hacking a car, and it's not that hard."

"So if there were a cyber attack on the car -- and I'm not saying there was," Clarke added, "I think whoever did it would probably get away with it."



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