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Grand Theft Auto, with a laptop

Grand Theft Auto, with a laptop

Wayne Cunningham Managing Editor / Roadshow
Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes about automotive technology for CNET's Roadshow. Prior to the automotive beat, he covered spyware, Web building technologies, and computer hardware. He began covering technology and the Web in 1994 as an editor of The Net magazine.
Wayne Cunningham
Stories have been going around the Web recently about a Czech car thief using a laptop to steal cars with keyless, push-button starters. My colleague Robert Vamosi, who sits in the office next to mine, wrote an excellent column describing various hacks of vehicle keyless start systems and how they were accomplished. He also goes into depth on the 40-bit codes that make the systems vulnerable and what automakers could do to stop them. Click here to read the column, "."