Whoops - There go our Immobilizers

Apparently our immobilizers can readily be hacked and a British university was about to publish the code to do it, but has temporarily been stopped. However, if they can do it, so can others and I suspect that the nut of protection for our cars has now been cracked. Might be time to buy one of those old fashion "Clubs". Here is the link... http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/...ling-car-hack/

The Club doesn't work at all. They cut the steering wheel to remove it.

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Well, that wasn't exactly how I was thinking of deploying it. Here is another alternative system to our immobilizers... Stick Death

Wait, who would steal a 996? Marvs excepted of course. Beautiful example of a GT3.

If a pro wants your car, the immobilizer isn't going to stop them. They do it just like a repo man:

Academic freedom my beans - how is busting a code that protects people's cars and property good for anyone? No wonder Great Britain is yesterday's country.

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I think you ask a very, very good question.

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I have to agree with KK for once on this one(shocking). I know some hope our cars get stolen so we can upgrade to the turbo, lol.

Yep, his GT3 is incredible. Need more pics.

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And if they did steal it - what would they do with it? I imagine that 996s would get stolen for a joyride maybe and that's it.....

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They might do this to it:

The 996s are popular and worth a lot of money in pats.

I guess they can back out the secret code from the vin (about the only crypto attack i could think of) and then just program new immo pills.

I understand that the immobilizers are advanced.... But in '86 I lived on the north edge of Hollywood and for some reason, my '78 VW Rabbit Diesel was wildly attractive to the young Hermanos. They repeatedly went after the radio & car. Had an alarm put it, they cut the wires to the siren. But each time they had such problems starting and moving it I was able to get down to the garage and chase them off....and live to tell about it. Radio: got a fair aftermarket radio. Attached it to the firewall with a 3/8" cable. They could get it a third of the way out, then it "jammed". Put a smaller line to a pressure switch on the horn, so every time they pulled, it blew the horn. Car: cut the wire to the fuel solenoid back up in the harness and wired it through a factory fog light toggle switch on the dash. They still got in the car, but could never figure out why it wouldn't start. No one thought to turn on the fog light switch (the car had no fog lights on it) right in front of them. I think hidden switches to fuel pumps or ignition systems still are some of the best to prevent someone from driving off in your car. I helped a friend put a reed switch (magnetic operated) in the top of his dash, wired to a relay & his ignition system. He had a religious figure that had a magnet on the bottom. Move it to the center of the dash, no ignition. Move it to the right spot, and the car would run. (Of course, his toddler knocked it off the dash one time in traffic and shut off the engine.)

Guy dies and at the pearly gates Peter asks his name. Man tells him but Peter couldn't find his name in the big book. Peter says "are you sure you are for heaven or hell as I can't find your name in the book?" "Heaven" says the man. "Well"ays Pete "tell me something good that you did on earth". Well says the guy "I chased these two HERMANOS who were trying to steal my 996". Peter asks "How long ago did this happen"? Oh about 2 minutes ago says the guy. DUH.

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Some good tricks. Another one I used to do when I had a Honduh(hot theft car) and was too lazy to wire up hidden switches and wiring and such was to switch two of my ignition wires going to the distributor cap when I parked it outside for awhile. This was very hard to detect since two wires were virtually the same length and I took off the numbers off them.