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Mazda Switches To USB Keys

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 1, 2005 @07:45AM from the now-thats-just-wierd dept.

kv9 writes "The new Mazda Sassou while being 'cool and promoting a positive state of mind' has a most important feature, that every geek will love. Instead of the classic key it uses a usb flash drive for starting up. The key can also be used to transfer things like driving instructions or music to the car's hard drive."

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Re:Security for everything by Asprin · 2005-09-01 08:00 · Score: 0, Troll

Your naiveté betrays you -- there is no such thing as "rock solid". Ever.

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Re:SCIF by Moofie · 2005-09-01 08:24 · Score: 0, Troll

Bend over. I'll show you.

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Re:great, another point of failure by c_woolley · 2005-09-01 08:33 · Score: 0, Troll

You ran your keys over with your grain truck....you idiot. Am I also to assume that these keys weren't the same used to turn your grain truck on?...idiot.