Cutting someone's brake lines has been a means of assassination for a while. What's new here is that it could potentially be done remotely, e.g. an attacker in Bucharest targeting a victim in Seattle on behalf of a payer in Moscow.
Remotely at scale.
So yeah you could assassinate someone like that, or you could break every cars brakes at once and have thousands of simultaneous car accidents timed during some other infrastructure attack
This reminds me of the movie "Leave the world behind" from last year.
And at any time.
Cutting someone's brake lines is all or nothing and can't be done while the vehicle is already in motion. Anyone who is not an idiot will hopefully notice as soon as they start driving that there's something wrong with the brakes. But you could brick somebody's car remotely and without warning while they're taking a curve on the interstate at 80 MPH, and that'd be a lot more problematic.
In reality, few to no people outside of novels and Hollywood have actually been killed by some malefactor "cutting their brake lines."
Cutting someone's brake lines has been a means of assassination for a while. What's new here is that it could potentially be done remotely, e.g. an attacker in Bucharest targeting a victim in Seattle on behalf of a payer in Moscow.
Remotely at scale.
So yeah you could assassinate someone like that, or you could break every cars brakes at once and have thousands of simultaneous car accidents timed during some other infrastructure attack
This reminds me of the movie "Leave the world behind" from last year.
And at any time.
Cutting someone's brake lines is all or nothing and can't be done while the vehicle is already in motion. Anyone who is not an idiot will hopefully notice as soon as they start driving that there's something wrong with the brakes. But you could brick somebody's car remotely and without warning while they're taking a curve on the interstate at 80 MPH, and that'd be a lot more problematic.
In reality, few to no people outside of novels and Hollywood have actually been killed by some malefactor "cutting their brake lines."