EU Secretly Plans To Put a Back Door In Every Car By 2020

An anonymous reader writes "A secretive EU body has agreed to develop a device to be fitted to all cars allowing police to cut off any engine at will, it emerged today. The device, which could be imposed within a decade, would also allow police to track a vehicle's movements as well as immobilise it. According to The Daily Telegraph a group of senior EU officials, including several Home Office mandarins, have signed off the proposal at a secret meeting in Brussels."

Re:Secret meetings:

[cstec]

Democrazy. You spelled it wrong.

My car already has 2 back doors

[Gothmolly]

And a hatchback door, so I guess you could say there are 3 back doors.

Way to write a headline, editors. How about something a little better like "EU Secretly Plans To Put a Back Door in Every Car ECU by 2020" ?

Re:Great idea

[ackthpt]

Because criminals won't immediately disable this shit, right?

Criminals will be targeted by drones. You'll know they are criminals because the drones shot at them.

Move along, citizen, nothing to see here.

So...

[Yaztromo]

Does that mean only hatchbacks will be permitted in the EU going forward?

(Note to eds: bad titles are bad, and will be mocked.)

Yaz

Mandarins

[hammeraxe]

What the.....

Re:I worry about the script kiddies

[Doug Otto]

and all of London's cars come to a grinding halt...

And this will be different than the M1 or M25 during rush hour how?

They Want Back Doors In My Car?

[organgtool]

Looks like it's time for a coupe

Re:Great idea

[Minwee]

Or learn how to access it...

Remember, if "They" can do it, for any value of They, so can someone else.

To do that they would have to either defeat a highly sophisticated military grade encryption system, or somehow be able to answer secret recovery questions that only the maker of the car would know.

"What year was this car's engine block assembled?"

"What was the name of the first dealership that this car was sent to?"

"If I tell you the last four digits of the credit card number used to purchase this car, can you tell me the two that come before them in under 100 guesses?"

I'm telling you, there is _no_ way that anybody could break through this kind of security.

Boston Brakes

[drwho]

...from CSI.

LIKE A ROCK!

[Zynder]

Introducing the Chevy Gillette! Now with FIVE, count 'em, 5 back doors for the widest, easiest rear access available on any vehicle on the road today! Getting some junk into your trunk has never been easier!