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Old Mar 18, 2010 | 01:52 PM
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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.

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Can't till they hack into drive by wire systems and drive the car into a wall for you.
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Old Mar 18, 2010 | 02:01 PM
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"Omar was pretty good with computers,” says Garcia.


Since when does knowing how to operate a computer qualify you be a "hacker?"
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Old Mar 18, 2010 | 02:02 PM
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Is this why Flojo hasnt been posting today?
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Old Mar 18, 2010 | 02:02 PM
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This girl here at work is pretty good with Microsoft Word. If she writes a ransom note in it, I'm telling everyone she's a hacker.
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Old Mar 18, 2010 | 06:12 PM
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Originally Posted by MikeyCB,Mar 18 2010, 06:02 PM
This girl here at work is pretty good with Microsoft Word. If she writes a ransom note in it, I'm telling everyone she's a hacker.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP98Pb50T-U [/media]
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Old Mar 18, 2010 | 06:25 PM
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One time in the old days, someone stole the ball out of my mouse. Did I get hacked?
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Old Mar 18, 2010 | 06:45 PM
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Originally Posted by KeithMajkasays,Mar 18 2010, 05:02 PM
Is this why Flojo hasnt been posting today?
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Old Mar 18, 2010 | 07:21 PM
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Originally Posted by tarheel91,Mar 19 2010, 02:12 AM
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP98Pb50T-U [/media]
He's pretty funny, but I can't get into the new show.
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Old Mar 18, 2010 | 10:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Incubus,Mar 18 2010, 11:21 PM
He's pretty funny, but I can't get into the new show.
What new show?
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Old Mar 19, 2010 | 06:22 AM
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Originally Posted by tarheel91,Mar 19 2010, 01:05 AM
What new show?
Important Things with Demitri Martin, I'd assume.
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