Did A Car Cyberattack Silence A Controversial Journalist?

American journalist, author, and Rolling Stone contributing editor, was a relentless force. Known as someone who “talked fast, smoked fast” and “vibrated energy,” his fearless pursuit of the truth, regardless of consequences, defined his career—and perhaps contributed to his untimely death. In 2013, he died in Los Angeles in a high-speed car crash, which some speculate was the result of the world’s first cyberattack on a vehicle. He began his writing journey with children’s stories for Scholastic, an educational magazine. By 2002, he joined Newsweek, earning praise for his compelling coverage of the Iraq War. Tragedy struck in 2007 while…