This article discusses how cars are moving more and more toward completely keyless systems with the entire security of the car based in its software. Sophisticated thieves with laptops and the appropriate know-how can steal a car with 20 minutes of wireless access to it.

This seems like a solution in search of a problem. Why exactly are keyless ignition systems a good idea? Sure, my car could probably be hotwired in far less than 20 minutes, but at least someone has to get into my car to do that. Allowing cars ignition systems to be accessed using wireless technology makes them more difficult to defend from theft.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006 at 6:38 pm by Peter Hesse and is filed under hardware. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.