On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:03:57 +0100, MM wrote:
>On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:40:28 +0100, unit743 wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:00:43 +0100, MM wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:39:59 +0100, "Steve Walker"
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>MM wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Well, how about equipping every vehicle with a police emergency
>>>>> circuit? Modern cars have engine management systems and the technology
>>>>> to remotely switch off the fuel supply is something sixth-formers
>>>>> could work out in half-an-hour with their science teacher. All you'd
>>>>> need to do is use only a helicopter in future pursuits, then send a
>>>>> Garmin- or TomTom-type instruction code to the pursued vehicle.
>>>>
>>>>That will inevitably come, but the technology isn't ready yet.
>>>
>>>Of COURSE it is! The technology is here already to place a cruise
>>>missile over hundreds of miles right on top of a bunker, even a
>>>vehicle. Simply triggering a circuit in a car's EMS remotely is
>>>trivial in the extreme.
>>>
>>
>>
>>Then it would be trivial to bypass and even more trivial to emulate
>>allowing for criminals to disable a vehicle whenever convenient for
>>mugging.
>>New technology - new crimes.
>
>Not trivial, possible. You really think a typical scrote TWOCker is
>going to know higher orders of cryptology and be able to put them into
>practice? Risible argument.
>
Do you really think that all the trojans and viruses, (virii?), that
are stealing data from home and business PCs are actually written by
the criminals using them.
No, they are written by those cleverer than average and sold on to
those who want them.
Criminals don't make guns or credit card scanners or other high tech
goods, they buy or steal them.
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