Don't send your old clunker of a retro-mobile to the automotive junk yard just yet. It may be the safest machine on the road.

In an article published Tuesday, Wired magazine reports on how it engaged two hackers to see if they could take control of a Jeep Cherokee from the comfort of their living room while writer Andy Greenberg sat nervously at the wheel while the SUV cruised the highway at 70 mph.

The hackers did so with no problems.

Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, security experts, accessed the Jeep's computer brain through its Uconnect infotainment system and rewrote the firmware to plant their malicious code. Once in, the duo began blasting hip-hop through the stereo system, turned the AC to maximum and, ultimately, killed the transmission and brakes.

Miller and Valasek, who have been exploring the automobile's growing digital vulnerabilities for a number of years, plan to report most of the details of the hack at Black Hat, the security conference that begins in Las Vegas Aug. 1. They'll leave out enough key elements so other hackers won't be able to replicate their mischief.

Still...with all the hacking of financial institutions in recent years how can we, as consumers, even remotely think that this can't happen? It is connected to a network and we all know that there is no such thing as 100% safe network so let's put 2 and 2 together and go change your underwear now. If it didn't scare you before perhaps it does now.

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