We’ve read about how  researchers successfully hijacking the control of vehicles’ onboard computers and collecting data on the movement of the vehicle or even rendering the target vehicle immobile, dead where it is parked. But these days you don’t have to be some kind of cyberwhizzkid to pull off that kind of trick. As more and more vehicles are being outfitted with “starter interrupt devices” or “kill switches” as a condition of financing, we are seeing more vehicles stopped cold as a part of the repossession process.

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