High-Tech RepoMan

PlayfullyClever writes "A new gizmo is upping the odds that even the most hard-knock customer will come up with the car payment. Hooked into the ignition system, the gadget comes in a handful of versions with one common conclusion: No pay, no start. It's worked wonders at Norfolk's Patriot Auto Sales, where nearly every car that drives off the lot is outfitted with a PayTeck Smart Box, a system that hands over a five-digit code in exchange for each payment. Come due date, the car won't crank until the customer punches the code into a palm-size keypad wired into the dash. I would think this "Smart Box" would get hacked way too easily, leaving car companies without their money."

Comments

We need something like this for our politicians.

[Zhe Mappel]

Haven't found those WMDs yet?

**** Bzzzzzzzt: step out of the car. ****

You blew the whole friggin' surplus on rich people?!

**** Bzzzzzzzt: step out of the car. ****

Heating oil is going to cost how much?!

**** Bzzzzzzzt: step out of the car. ****

Thousands dead and wounded, no oil coming out of Iraq, torture rooms on three continents, and the whole world hates us?

**** Bzzzzzzzt: this way to your prison cell. ****