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Aug 2025
52m 21s

The Wheels on the CAN Bus: Car Hacks

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Today's automobiles are brimming with technology. Most of the time, that's pretty cool. But it stops being cool when sneaky hackers breach the systems and have a field day. Those are crimes…ridiculous crimes.

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