A team claims to have cracked the Immobilizer, a security system developed by Texas Instruments that uses imbedded chips in keys to authenticate before a car will start.
Oh, and yes, it is the same RFID technology that’s used in things such as the SpeedPass System:
Researchers said they were able to crack that code, too.
“We stole our own car, and we bought gas stealing from our own credit card,” said Avi Rubin, a professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins who led the research team.