[MississippiMasterpiece]

From left, Prof. Aviel D. Rubin, Adam Stubblefield, Matthew Green and Stephen Bono working with cards programmed to conduct an assault on a car-key chip.

[Jet Jaguar]

Inventive bunch. Good work.

[goldstategop]

Anything the pros want to steal - they can get. Most security systems will stop people who don't have the patience or training to get past it. So the implications of this are theoretical for most of us. We have to balance the expense of security with the likelihood a theft will occur.

Denny Crane: "I want two things. First God and then Fox News."

[night reader]

OK! If it takes a Johns Hopkins grad student to steal my car, I'm willing to run the risk!

[OldSmaj]

...and the medical school at the University of California, Los Angeles, plans to implant chips in cadavers to curtail unauthorized sale of body parts.

Well, I'm impressed that it takes a grad student and several professors from our institutions of higher learning to make a dent in the security of my vehicle, but...

I was definitely not aware that we had a problem with body parts from cadavers being sold.

Who is selling them?

Who are they selling them to?

Who removes them for sale?

Who accepts them and installs them?

I thought I was a pretty well-read and knowledgeable person, been there/done that kind of person, but this is the first I've heard of this.

I can just see some poor fellow that got the bargain-basement deal at his local flea market for his left kidney, walking down the street, whistling away, only to be confronted by the "Stolen Body Parts" squad from the local precinct, it having been detected by a "routine" RFID scan of the poor fellow.

This could be hugh and series.

[j. earl carter]

people could block eavesdroppers by keeping the key or Speedpass token in a tinfoil sheath

See, maybe the tinfoil hats are a good idea.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Future NSA employees?

Good news for all you online bankers?

[Semi Civil Servant]

My Dad always said locks only stop honest people.

[aspiring.hillbilly]

There is not a piece of technology out there that cant be cracked or duplicated given enough computer time. This is why a scheme for a national ID card is a folly, and reliance on that in the name of security will lead to catastrophe.

[wildbill]

What can be done in theory, imitated in tests, and is practical in real life are often different. I'm not sure most of the car thieves around are really high tech gurus, willing and able to spend the time and money.

And couldn't the chips be remanufactured to add a couple of numbers into the encription, making the breaking of the code more difficult by a multiple?