House votes to continue NSA spying on citizens

[Tellos Athenaios]

that's a little exaggerated.

While cars can be hacked they don't usually have remote connections so you would have to plug into them directly which limits the scope of any possible hacks - of course if you have remote assistance or wireless of some kind as an extra then this is a different ball game...

Quite a lot of them are equipped with Bluetooth, and wouldn't you know it: there've been a few example attacks which result in a complete take-over of the car, including disabling input (from the steering wheel and pedals) and spoofing sensor data to the instruments effectively turning the car into a RF-controlled toy using Bluetooth as an attack vector. (Compromising the Bluetooth enabled system to gain access to the CAN bus...) Also, similar good times are to be had with pacemakers (quite a few of which are also equipped with RF comms and can be remotely tampered with as a result...).