Uber adopts the
advice of LBJ (with regard to J. Edgar Hoover) and
hires the hackers for itself;
Charlie Miller, who had been working at Twitter Inc., and Chris Valasek,
who worked at security firm IOActive, have resigned from their jobs and
will join Uber next week.
Miller and Valasek won wide attention last month after demonstrating that they could hack into a moving Jeep.
Uber said that Miller and Valasek will join the company’s Advanced
Technologies Center, a research laboratory Uber opened in Pittsburgh in
February and staffed with dozens of autonomous vehicle experts hired
away from Carnegie Mellon University.
Nor should drivers for Uber expect to have a long career;
As Uber plunges more deeply into developing or adapting self-driving
cars, Miller and Valasek could help the company make that technology
more secure.
Uber envisions autonomous cars that could someday replace its
hundreds of thousands of contract drivers. The San Francisco company has
gone to top-tier universities and research centers to build up this
capability.
Autonomous cars wouldn't be paid the minimum wage.
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