Thieves outwit high-tech advances

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Subject:        Thieves outwit high-tech advances
Date:   Thu, 9 Feb 2006 01:10:01 -0500
From:   Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>
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Thieves outwit high-tech advances
# Automobile antitheft systems have gotten smart -- but so have 
networks of criminals.

By Ralph Vartabedian, Times Staff Writer
February 8, 2006

The recent thefts in Southern California of several Lexus LS 400s, 
known among security experts for their antitheft systems that tie 
into the car's central computer system, have created new concerns 
about the evolving expertise of organized crime rings to defeat the 
auto industry's most clever engineering.

In the past, the theft of a few vehicles might not have seemed like 
such a big deal. But the ability of thieves to defeat top-tier 
automotive technology is another sign of the sophistication of 
criminal networks. Increasingly, car theft is more like computer 
hacking than like breaking and entering a home or business protected 
by physical locks and keys.

For every step taken by engineers to increase the difficulty of 
stealing a car, criminal networks have responded with schemes to 
defeat physical and electronic systems.

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http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-hy-wheels8feb08,1,1199256.story



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