Steal any car

Even if it has something like Honda's Immobilizer system:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.08/carkey.html

 

yeah dude, no problem. most everything has a back door. that bios
you're using in your p.c. right now. where was it made? is it backdoored?

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/30/1344211

seriously, most security is completely defeatable, either by accident or
design. all it does is deter casual thieves that haven't learned the
tricks. yet.

 

Ummm.....the personal computer I'm using right now doesn't have a bios.

 

This is covered in the September '99 issue of Honda Service News.

The important things are that you need the 4 or 5 digit "brake code" (which
only the dealer can get), plus you need a key that fits your lock, which
means you also need to know the key code if you haven't got the real key.

Yes, the author "jacked" his own car, but it would be awfully difficult for
a thief to duplicate this feat, since he'd not only need the brake code,
but the correct key.

 

yes it does. it's the flash memory system that configures and checks
the hardware before it loads the operating system. no bios, no boot.

 

I see you're using a PowerPC running Mac OS-X. You have "Boot ROM" instead,
don't you?

 

On this one, yes.

 

....as doesn't mine.

JT

 

Ditto here.

JT

(Still cruisin' the net on an ancient G4 Gigabit)

 

HA! Gotcha beat. This old Sawtooth I'm on is like Grandpa's axe. So
far the only thing that hasn't been replaced or upgraded is the case and
motherboard. New power supply, new fan, new video card, upgraded
processor, new hard drive, new optical drive...Sawtooth rocks.

 

Maybe got you both beat. As my fairly new Dell is cranking out some
video edits right now, I'm cruising on a CyberMax PC from 1997. Over
the years, upgraded bios (!), fan, processor, memory, video card,
burner, scuzzy-card for the scanner (fast!), NIC card (finally pulled
out the dead-weight Robotics modem 2 weeks ago), power supply, CMOS
batteries, hard drives at various (inconvenient) times. Nothing
original except the case and motherboard, AND the manufacturer has
been out of business for 6 years. Hooked up to it is a Mita DP-560
printer that Kyocera never even wrote XP drivers for. Yes, it's
running 98SE, and is virtually virus-proof since it is not a target.
I've had to use it twice to download fixes for the Dell, which runs
XP.

Oh, and, if they want to steal a car, they'll do anything necessary.
Even throw it in the back of a truck with a forklift.

 

Not sooooooo fast thar' podner... My G4 Gigabit was purchased new in
2001, (just as Apple had a losing quarter and was changing over to the
Digital Graphics), at a "firesale" price of $1,200. I bought this thing
out of one paycheck when I was implementing a project and did a 70 hour
work week. Anyway, I added a SCSI card for my old slide scanner and
have since put in bigger hard drives, (120 & 160 Gb). Running 512Mb RAM
and did put in the later CD/DVD rear/write Pioneer thingie.

Then, there is the $30 dual 500 that I bought a couple of years ago with
a supposedly bad PS. I'm about to fire it up as a server that will run
my two printers, a very ancient 12/640PS LaserWriter and an Epson Photo
1200.

The last Apple is the G3 iBook 466 clamshell which suffices just fine
when I travel.

Now, I could go into the three Power Computing machines and associated
junk (that are destined for eBay once the dual is cookin').

<G>

JT

 

Bzzzzzzzzzt!!!

This competition is closed to microsquish peecees...

JT

 

I apologize. I didn't realize... You don't have a favorite old
pet, you have a menagerie of crippled machinery and strays.

Call 1-800-DUALCORE before it's too late !!

8 ^ )

 

The one in your head doesn't count.

 

duh, if it didn't have a security backdoor, how would they repossess
it when you don't make the payments?

 

Doofus, the repo guy doesn't have the code.

He dollies it away with a tow truck.

 

Ever seen an actual repo? Up and gone in less than a minute. Cool to watch.
They don't even make an attempt at getting inside the car.

 

Hye, I saw the actual movie Repo Man, so i must know.