Thread: Hacker Disables More Than 100 Cars Remotely

More than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking out of control, after an intruder ran amok in a web-based vehicle-immobilization system normally used to get the attention of consumers delinquent in their auto payments.

Police with Austin’s High Tech Crime Unit on Wednesday arrested 20-year-old Omar Ramos-Lopez, a former Texas Auto Center employee who was laid off last month, and allegedly sought revenge by bricking the cars sold from the dealership’s four Austin-area lots.

“We initially dismissed it as mechanical failure,â€

I don't like new cars because of this big brother "push and shove". And they wonder why people aren't buying cars anymore. Geez, it's because the Police can now disable your car while you are driving it. And I was initially only worried about Big Brother. IIRC, it began with the 2006 model year cars that were equipped with remote shut off.