[meteorite-list] Off Topic: Car Remote Security

From: Dark Matter <freequarks_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 15:50:08 -0700
Message-ID: <822da19a0912011450p7f70e7aeobb341bc4a04dccd0_at_mail.gmail.com>

good grief....

http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/lockcode.asp


http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/automobiles/a/car_locks.htm


http://majorhitwaves.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/thursday-night-internet-hoax-hall-of-shame-30/

and so on...

-Martin



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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Received on Tue 01 Dec 2009 05:50:08 PM PST