A Hacker Threat Is Hiding in Your Car's Tire Pressure System

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If you drive a car that's newer than 2008, a new study finds your vehicle's tire pressure monitoring system can be used to track you. 

A group of researchers at IMDEA Networks Institute -- an English-speaking research organization on data networks based in Madrid -- discovered this privacy risk at the end of a 10-week study in which they collected roughly 6 million wireless signals from over 20,000 cars. Their findings point to a serious hacker threat ...