One of the main areas that the investigators I support look into is car "clocking" (turning back the mileage on a car to increase it's value), a small crime in itself but worth millions if done on a large scale. More and more cars are now fitted with digital odometers. One of the proposed advantages was security but with a laptop, correct software and sockets, dodgy dealers can plug into the car's memory and update the data to lower the mileage. Has anyone done any work in the area. I guess that all the different makes store the data in slightly different ways (I guess some use EPROM?). If there is a time, date stamp on the data, we could prove that the mileage was changed after the initila sale date?, cheers, Pat ----------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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