According to research firm Forrester, 35 percent of Americans—few of them Ars readers, we think—want Internet connectivity in their next vehicle. The car and tech industries are busy trying to make that auto Internet connectivity a reality. New cars increasingly come with their own LTE modems (and monthly bill), enabling remote apps for vehicle diagnostics or for unlocking car doors from the comfort of a phone or smartwatch. These apps and modems are usually connected in the cloud with plenty of thought given to security we’re told—except in cases where there’s no security at all.
But Mitsubishi’s Outlander hybrid does things a bit differently, as the people over at PenTestPartners recently discovered.
