Comments on: Flap Your Lips Friday

By: Social Butterfly

Social Butterfly — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 23:37:06 +0000

Um… I do read the comments in the articles I post….try to have an original thought, eh?

Happy Friday all.

/SB

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 23:04:07 +0000

Michelle here is the link about the mystery box being used to break into cars.

http://www.kvoa.com/news/car-thieves-use-mystery-gadget-to-hack-in/

…But Kyung lah reports nobody — not even the car manufacturers — knows how it works.

In Long Beach, California, a man walks up to a car and using a small box, opens it.
Right next to him is another man, also using a box, opens that car.
The problem — they’re thieves. No keys. Now they’ve swiped all valuables from the cars….

By: Lai

Lai — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 23:00:28 +0000

Michelle, this is a device used to detect when someone hides their laptop in their cars.
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Laptop owners may need to start worrying about leaving a laptop in a vehicle.

According to Malaysia’s New Straits Times, thieves have been using some type of mysterious gadget to break into cars and steal laptops. In the district of Petaling Jaya, over 255 laptops have been stolen from parked cars so far this year. And police say the majority of these laptops were hidden from sight at the time.

The police haven’t been able to find any of the supposed “mystery devices” yet, and are advising people to carry laptops with them rather than leave them in their cars.

Speculation is that the thieves’ gadget may be using WiFi and/or Bluetooth to detect the presence of the laptops in the vehicles.

Sounds like a case for CSI, doesn’t it?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 22:54:01 +0000

New way that thieves are breaking into your car in record TIME
This is very troubling what lengths people will go to steal
>> what doesn’t
>> belong to them !
>>
>> Beware folks. This is news you can use.
>>
>> THIS HAS BEEN CHECKED ON SNOPES
>>
>> My oldest son came over yesterday- he had to go to Canada
>> for work last
>> week.
>> One of the other engineer’s traveling to Canada with
>> him, but in his own
>> car had something happen…that I need to share.
>>
>> While traveling he stopped at the roadside park, similar
>> to what we have
>> here with bathrooms, vending machines etc.
>>
>> He came out to his car less than 4-5 minutes later and
>> found someone had
>> gotten into his car, and stolen his cell phone, laptop
>> computer, gps
>> navigator briefcase…..you name it.
>>
>> They called the police and since there were no signs of
>> his car being broke
>> into- the police told him that there is a device that
>> robbers are using now
>> to clone your security code when you lock your doors on
>> your car using your
>> key-chain locking device..
>>
>> They set a distance away and watch for their next victim.
>>
>> Since they know you are going inside of the store,
>> restaurant, or bathroom
>> and have a few minutes to steal and run.
>>
>> The police office said…to be sure to manually lock your
>> car door-by
>> hitting the lock button inside the car, that way if there
>> is someone
>> setting in a parking lot watching for their next victim it
>> will not be
>> you.
>>
>> When you hit the lock button on your car upon exiting…it
>> does not send
>> the security code, but if you walk away and use the door
>> lock on your key
>> chain- it sends the code thru the airwaves where it can be
>> stolen.
>>
>>
>> I just wanted to let you know about this…it is something
>> totally new to
>> us…and this is real…it just happened this past
>> Thursday June 19th to
>> his co-worker…
>>
>> So be aware of this and please pass this note on.
>>
>> Keep safe everyone!
>>

By: Henry

Henry — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 22:37:42 +0000

Social Butterfly, between Mike Huckabee to the northwest, Paula Deen and Rick Scott to the east, Tennessee to the north, and Mississippi to the west, my beloved but deeply flawed Alabama looks positively progressive and tolerant.