[s-cars] Inovative Car Thieves

[Lee Levitt]

Wilson writes:
> 
> "The research team at Johns Hopkins University said Saturday it discovered
> that the ``immobilizer'' security system developed by Texas Instruments
> could be cracked using a ``relatively inexpensive electronic device'' that
> acquires information hidden in the microchips that make the system work. "
> 
> The article mentions 150 million Ford, Nissan and Toyota's are at risk.

Well, what do you want from TI. This was the same company that put a comma
in some code rather than a semi-colon and sent a satellite off into the dark
regions of space! Oops!

True story from the early to mid-80s.

Lee
(ex TIer...it wasn't me!)