[meteorite-list] Off Topic: Car Remote Security

From: Meteorites USA <eric_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:52:30 -0800
Message-ID: <4B159E2E.7090104_at_meteoritesusa.com>

Woops... Sorry all...









Dark Matter wrote:
> good grief....
>
> http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/lockcode.asp
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> http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/automobiles/a/car_locks.htm
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> http://majorhitwaves.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/thursday-night-internet-hoax-hall-of-shame-30/
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> and so on...
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> -Martin
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> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Meteorites USA <eric at meteoritesusa.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> This is off topic, but it's something I thought worthwhile to share with
>> list members. Don't know how recent this is, but I received an email forward
>> from a friend and figured I'd forward this to list members just as a heads
>> up.
>>
>> ------------------------------------------
>> BEGIN FORWARDED EMAIL
>> ------------------------------------------
>> How to Lock Your Car and Why
>>
>> I locked my car. As I walked away I heard my car door unlock. I went back
>> and locked my car again three times. Each time, as soon as I started to walk
>> away, I would hear it unlock again! Naturally alarmed, I looked around and
>> there were two guys sitting in a car in the fire lane next to the store.
>> They were o obviously watching me intently and there was no doubt they were
>> somehow involved in this very weird situation. I quickly chucked the errand
>> I was on, jumped in my car and sped away. I went straight to the police
>> station, told them what had happened and found out I was part of a new --
>> and very successful -- scheme being used to gain entry into cars. Two weeks
>> later, my friend's son had a similar experience. While traveling, my
>> friend's son stopped at a roadside rest area to use the bathroom. When he
>> came out to his car less than five minutes later, someone had gotten into
>> his car and stolen his cell phone, laptop computer, GPS navigator,
>> briefcase...You name it. He called the police and since there were no signs
>> of his car being broken into, the police told him he had been a victim of
>> the latest robbery tactic: There is a device that robbers are using now to
>> clone your security code when you lock your doors on your car using your
>> key-chain locking device. They sit a distance away and watch for their next
>> victim. They know you are going inside of the store, restaurant, or
>> bathroom and that they now have a few minutes to steal and run. The police
>> officer said to manually lock your car door-by hitting the lock button
>> inside the car. That way, if there is someone sitting in a parking lot
>> watching for their next victim, it will not be you. When you hit the lock
>> button on your car upon exiting, it does not send the security code, but if
>> you walk away and use the door lock on your key chain, it sends the code
>> through the airwaves where it can be instantly stolen. This is very real.
>> Be wise and aware of what you just read and please pass this note on. Look
>> how many times we all lock our doors with our remote just to be sure we
>> remembered to lock
>> them -- and bingo, someone has our code...and whatever was in our car.
>> Snopes Approved -- Please share with everyone you know!!
>>
>>
>> "never forget that a government, large enough to give us everything we want,
>> is also large and powerful enough, to take everything we have..."
>> ------------------------------------------
>> END FORWARDED EMAIL
>> ------------------------------------------
>>
>> Regards,
>> Eric
>>
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