- My Satellite Setup
- A little less analogue, and a lot more crap.
- My Location
- UK
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.
www.seattletimes.com
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.