[17235] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post

Re: Malaysia car thieves steal finger

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Fri May 20 15:43:20 2005

X-Original-To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
X-Original-To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 19:22:32 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <p06110485be7213b7e9ef@[68.167.57.91]>

R.A. Hettinga wrote:
> Police in Malaysia are hunting for members of a violent gang who chopped
> off a car owner's finger to get round the vehicle's hi-tech security system.

Good to know that my "amputationware" meme was not just paranoia.

-- 
http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html       http://www.thebunker.net/

"There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he
doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff

---------------------------------------------------------------------
The Cryptography Mailing List
Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@metzdowd.com

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post