Collaborate Disseminate
Dash cameras are handy as they provide a video recording of interactions on the road. However, their utility comes from the fact that they are always recording while driving. This …read more Continue reading An Ultra Low Power Dash Cam
Now that we drive around cars that are more like mobile data centers than simple transportation, there’s a wealth of data to be harvested when the inevitable crashes occur. After a recent Tesla crash on a California highway, a security researcher got a hold of the car’s “black box” and …read more
Repurposing commodity electronics is one of the true forms of hacking, and it’s always the simple little hacks that lead to big ones. [Everett] wanted to use a $20 GoPro clone as a dash cam, so he wired a microcontroller into it to automate some actions and make it practical. …read more
Continue reading Hacking A Cheap Action Cam Into A Dashcam With A Microcontroller
Watch out car drivers. If you have have installed a BlackVue dash cam into your vehicle you might have unwittingly made available your real-time GPS location.
Continue reading Internet-enabled dash cams that allow anyone to track your GPS location in real-time
If you’ve purchased a piece of consumer electronics in the last few years, there’s an excellent chance that you were forced to use some proprietary application (likely on a mobile device) to unlock its full functionality. It’s a depressing reality of modern technology, and unless you’re willing to roll your …read more
Continue reading Reverse Engineering Liberates Dash Cam Video
Why was Zoho’s website taken offline by its own domain registrar? How are dash cams making you less secure? And why are robocalls on the rise in the United States?
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing… Continue reading Smashing Security #097: Dash cam surveillance, robocall plague, and Zoho woe
You heard it here first: dash cams are going to be the next must-have item for your daily driver. Already reaching market saturation in some parts of the world but still fairly uncommon in North America, we predict that car makers will soon latch onto the trend and start equipping cars with dash cams as standard equipment. And you can just bet that whatever watered-down, overpriced feature set they come up with will be sure to disappoint, so you might want to think about building your own Raspberry Pi dash cam with an accelerometer and lots of LEDS.
Still very …read more
Continue reading Homebrew Dash Cam Enables Full Suite of Sensors