Bi-directional telemetry in racing cars. Just imagine, who wants to outsmart you? Competitors, bookies, publicity-seekers. How much they can gain? A lot. What can they do? Spy on telemetric data in order to improve own design, hijack the session and control the car, jam the communication so that the team cannot get the data from the car. Infinity and beyond! This has always been a domain of SIGINT and COMSEC experts. Wil car racing become an information warfare?

Some articles about IT and Formula 1.

• Formula 2001 (Wired)
• Networks in pole position (Gruer's Technical F1)

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Teams fear hacker threat to Formula One. Wow. Is Formula  1 telemetry protection more jazzy than banking security? Even average people understand (in their own way) both of these areas so the usual problem explaining what's my job to non-technical people would be much easier. I bet Formula 1 will appear in the next issue of RISKS.  6:03:41 PM