Sep 14 2015 - KeriBlog

It amuses me so much, how terrible my account is. This post is documenting the bad before I improve it.

Above was posted about 18 months ago.

The below photo is from 2009. I’m like a real estate agent that way.

The red arrow is the best part, because of its rarity…

… a non-real-name, fully functional LinkedIn account.

My last name has no vowels (Keri CDN was my handle 2007-2010.)

That’s not my Twitter, closed in 2010, oh @KeriBlog

That is my physical address though, if you’d like to mail me something nice.

Why is this so funny?

Because my blog and I have been flown around North America, gained access to some amazing places, and tested $10 million+ in cars… all without a LinkedIn OR an About Page.

Come on that’s funny.

When’d you last hear that? Okay not the most popular sport * I know… but still, ehhh?!

Some automakers contributed to my nonsense, I have these from a few OEMs – it’s the document you sign when picking up a press car haha thanks guys!

I kept my last name offline for 5 years. My Google account is part of the 0.0002% range. My Facebook account isn’t a real-name either, it’s also Keri CDN.

My health card has a red stripe.

See, funny.

No mention, or link, to KeriBlog.com… anywhere. Or 3 years being the Featured Author at the newspaper.

Last updated February 2010.

But!

I’m at that point where continued reticence will be my downfall, okay so game over, here we go.

About pages coming next.

Connect with me – Linkedin.com/KeriPotipcoe

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* Just to say it, this isn’t that weird, I’m not the only one who likes this game, and lots are better at it… I know someone who got a credit card in their handle phft.

(photo credit: Wikipedia and author EE JRW)

The computer in your car runs on a network called CAN bus.

The Controller Area Network (CAN) is the standard for all vehicles. More specifically, inside your car there are almost 100 computers (called ECUs – Electronic Control Units) which use CAN bus to talk to one another.

There’s 2 problems with CAN bus:

1

Everything on the bus – big and small – is considered equal, so steering is equal to say, the fuel door latch. Moreover, the system never wonders where the message came from or who sent it, it just accepts and executes it.

Example: the fuel door button is pulled, sending a message that says, “open now!” and the fuel door says “okay got it, opening!”

That’s how car hacking works – because there’s no checks or balances, the system just accepts it and executes the command.

2

CAN bus was developed by Bosch in the 1980s, built when there was no outside world.

But then along came the Internet, and the connected car, and that’s why vehicles today are vulernable – they’re built on a system that isn’t ready to be secured for the internet because it never even imagined the internet would exist.