I had a 5 series for a few years and the entire car communicates on a serial bus. At the time (about 3 years back) there was lots of hacker activity on trying to connect a PC to the bus so that commands could be intercepted and sent. Theoretically, you can have a PC send commands to control the radio, windows, door locks etc. But you could also pretend you're another part of the car and send commands like "I'm the car speed sensor, and we're travelling at 0 kph". It fools things like the touch screen into thinking that it's ok to accept commands because the car's not moving. Pretty simple, really.
The Triumph proved to be one of the better looking and performing pre-paid handsets we'd had the pleasure of holding in our sweaty mitts, but we had one major hangup: the name.
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I had a 5 series for a few years and the entire car communicates on a serial bus. At the time (about 3 years back) there was lots of hacker activity on trying to connect a PC to the bus so that commands could be intercepted and sent. Theoretically, you can have a PC send commands to control the radio, windows, door locks etc. But you could also pretend you're another part of the car and send commands like "I'm the car speed sensor, and we're travelling at 0 kph". It fools things like the touch screen into thinking that it's ok to accept commands because the car's not moving. Pretty simple, really.