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7 hours ago

There's a vulnerability in my bike - when I push my left handlebar hard forward when riding down a road, I can crash into a pillar.

I think a possibility of knowingly pushing the handlebar should be removed from me, just in case. After all I could do it.

And while we're at it I just realised my car has a similar vulnerability, but triggered by a slightly different mechanism, but the effect is exactly the same, I can crash into a pillar.

Edit: oops, I just discovered that if I have a banking app installed on my phone, then tap my screen in the specific places, enter several numbers, including the number I receive in text, suddenly I lose all the money.

That's staggering!

I mean, you made a good metaphorical case for controlled handlebar slop/headset resistance in bicycles/motorcycles. Which are things that exist to mitigate crashes from oversteering on both of those vehicles!

  • In the bikes they're mostly aimed at preventing tank slappers/death wobble. I have a dampener on my bike myself, but it still allows me to countersteer as harsh/rapidly as I want, and that means crashing into a railing or a cliff wall if I overshoot.

    No technology prevents the crash, they just lower the chance of it happening accidentally (like, say, ABS or DCT). I can remove almost all of the guardrails on my bike choosing more aggressive riding mode.

    Countermeasures to the accidentally allowing a malware to "do something" already exist and were described in the original article. The comment I was responding to wants a removal of the whole capability, hence my cases.