Skytop

From the Sunday NY Times today, an interesting article regarding a graduate cryptographer at Johns Hopkins University who is part of a team that plans to announce on Jan. 29 that ithey have cracked the security behind "immobilizer" systems from Texas Instruments Inc. The systems reduce car theft, because vehicles will not start unless the system recognizes a tiny chip in the authorized key. This breach in security also has implications for security breaches involving variations on the technology used in the chips, known as RFID for radio frequency identification, are widely used. Similar systems deduct highway tolls from drivers' accounts and restrict access to workplaces.

This system is in use in gajillions of cars. I do not know if Porsche employs the Texas Instruments security chips but this story once again emphasises that what security man can create, another man can crack.

Here is a link:
http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-5555...feed&subj=news

nyca

I believe the digital millenium copyright laws now on the books make it a crime to hack and release this kind of information.

DonneyJ

Texas instrument stockholders...SELL......SELL......SELL