Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Grand theft auto, the high-tech way / ZDNet UK, 8 May 2006

http://digbig.com/4hnmd
Robert Vamosi
"Recently, footballer David Beckham had not one, but two, antitheft-engineered BMW S5 SUVs stolen. The most recent theft occurred in Madrid, Spain. Police believe an auto theft gang using software instead of hardware pinched both of Beckham's BMWs. How a keyless car gets stolen isn't exactly a state secret - much of the required knowledge is Basic Encryption 101. The authors of the Johns Hopkins/RSA study needed only to capture two challenge-and-response pairs from their intended target before cracking the encryption."