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Breaking into a car...via text message.
Don Bailey -- a security consultant as iSEC Partners -- says he can hack into cars using a mobile trick that allows him to locate your car through GPS coordinates -- and dig right into its brain.
How does it work? SC Magazine reports the systems Bailey hacks into via text message...
“...often receive firmware updates and other messages over the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) telephone network in the form of SMS messages...it is their reliance on the GSM network that makes such systems vulnerable to reverse engineering and abuse.”
And this hack can do more than just pop the trunk. In an interview with CNN, Bailey admits,
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