Car Theives go high tech ?

[Kamal]

For every hundred or so stupid criminals that we feature on these pages, there are a few just as brilliant as their contemporaries are dim: look at the international group of hardware pirates who managed to build their own version of Japan's NEC Corp, or the laptop-toting thieves who succesfully stole not one, but two, of soccer football star David Beckham's BMW X5 SUVs by hacking the keyless-entry systems. In the last six months, the Real Madrid star and Mr. Posh Spice has seen two of his $60,000 vehicles lost to geeky criminals, with the most recent GTA occurring while Becks dined at a mall in Spain. Apparently thieves armed with a particular model's security schematics can jack into the car's PC and run software that dumps out the necessary codes for breaking the encryption, allowing them to unlock the doors, start the engine, and in some cases, even disable built-in tracking devices. Yeah, we're kind of impressed, but let's see these fancy criminals use their high-tech lockpicks to "hack" the cold, hard steel of our "Club LX."

http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/03/becks-loses-two-bimmers-to-laptop-toting-thieves/

Holy Hell I didn't even think this was possible, wow its a whole new world out there

[KinKyJ]

Re: Car Theives go high tech ?

CTRL+ALT+DEL in 30 seconds imo

[picklemonkey]

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what a shame

[Morgan]

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Heard the one about the bluetooth virus that crashes the control PC then obviously the car crashes next?

Sounds like Si-Fi, but it's actually true. I'll see if i can post the link to the article.

[unkownartist]

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hey if u loose your keys while your out and they are infra red you can call home on the mobile and get someone to press the spare key ( if you have one ) and apparently it opens the car if u hold the phone to the car....handy, but u still have to rip up the steering column to start it lol.....over here i used to work in a car auction and sometimes keys went missing etc etc and the old fords we used to break into them using half a tennis ball, you would place it over the lock and press it a couple of times and for some crazy reason the lock would open.

[palmer]

Re: Car Theives go high tech ?

Anytime there is a computer involved.
There is a loophole.
That is the way it will always be.

[DancingQueen]

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thats crazy that ppl can do that now....nothing electrical is safe these days...people can hack anything

[unkownartist]

Re: Car Theives go high tech ?

Anytime there is a computer involved.
There is a loophole.
That is the way it will always be.

yea but you would expect there to be a system of encryption but even in saying that all it takes is a dodgy car salesman with access to the codes