Andy Greenbeg And The Jeep: A Short Story

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Andy Greenbeg was driving o the edge of downtown St. Louis at

70 mph when the tragedy was about to take place. Just ten the Jeep began acting

strangely and the technical attributes were malfunctioning along with the rest of

the vehicle. The two hackers appeared on the digital screen inside the victim's car.

There is a specific code that alows hackers to send commands through the Jeep's

system. This is controlled from a laptop that can be from across the world.

conditioning until they cut the transission. This slowed down the Jeep's

acceleration and lost most of its momentum. "When you lose faith that a car will do

what you tell it to do it really changes your whole view of how the thing works",

Miller a man who studies how hackers

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