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Mazda glitch forces Seattle drivers to listen to KUOW
Maybe HAL from "2001: A Space Odyssey" now works in public radio. A number of Mazda drivers have found they can no longer change the station on their infotainment systems — all because they tuned in to KUOW.
Mazda headquarters says the problem was that KUOW “sent image files with no extension.”
The files would be maybe the album cover of a song being played on the radio, or its release date, “to, quote, improve the experience,” says Tappan.
What could have happened, says the professor, is that the station sent a file that didn’t identify its format, whether a Word document or image such as a JPEG.
Something similar could be utilised by criminals elsewhere.