More car theft shenanigans
Posted by massnerder on July 31, 2006
Back in May, I posted about some of the most expensive cars being the easiest to steal. I was reading BoingBoing today and came across a related story. It seems if you have one of these expensive car security systems, insurers consider your car unstealable — if it’s reported stolen, you must be involved. This is a highly ignorant stance as there is no such thing as “absolutely secure.” The best part of the story is the revelation that many of these systems have an override. In the case of the story’s writer, his Civic’s startup security can be bypassed with a series of pulls on the emergency break.
Overrides render a security system absolutely useless against a professional thief. The same can be said in the computer world — any system with a backdoor is of no use against an experienced cracker.
Chris Haaker said
I just read that article in Wired magazine on the flight home from vacation. I was amazed as well that they think they could get away with a policy like that. My only conclusion is that, like health insurance companies, their internal policy is to make you fight to get the payment you rightly deserve. I can only imagine what the fine print on the policy says about this … i will have to check mine out.