Chapter 8
Hacking a self-driving car
So far there are only several reports of such hacks and none of them has turned violent yet. But still some possibilities are described in this paper:
COINTELPRO
COINTELPRO (syllabic abbreviation derived from COunter INTELligence PROgram) (1956–present) is a series of covert and illegal projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting American political organizations.
Learn more:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
- https://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro
- https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/94755_II.pdf
- https://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/Black%20Liberation%20Disk/Black%20Power!/SugahData/Government/COINTELPRO.S.pdf
- https://www.krusch.com/books/kennedy/Cointelpro_Papers.pdf
Riseup
Masha receives an email from Kriztina from her address at riseup.net.
Riseup provides online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social
change.
We are a project to create democratic alternatives and practice self-determination by
controlling our own secure means of communications.
Enigmail
In the email header from Kriztina there is a phrase:
Enigmail UNTRUSTED good signature from Kriztina <kriztinak@riseup.net>That means she uses Enigmail to encrypt and digitally sign her messages. Enigmail works with several mail clients including Thunderbird and Evolution. The meaning of “Untrusted good signature” was explained on the Enigmail forum:
GOOD means that Enigmail verified that the mail content matches the
signature. Nobody tampered with the message. It reached you unmodified
and only the ones that have the SECRET key it is signed with are able
to perform that particular signature.
UNTRUSTED means that although the message matches the signature, GnuPG
cannot check whether the key belongs to the OWNER of the email address.Learn more: