Just when our cars are getting all wireless, bluetoothed, internet connected and remote keyed, the thorns are appearing among the roses.

Our cars have become a chaos of micro-chips, computers, wireless entertainment and 'smart' safety features. But that also creates several points of entry for hackers as this AP article describes.

Why car-jack and face assault charges when you can pop open doors and clean out the contents, maybe even drive away the car? My Buick has a smart phone app that let's me do the first. It lets me start the car too, but it still requires a key to drive it away -- for now anyway.

Maybe we should hang onto those old analog pre-80's cars if we can still remember how to turn a key to open a door.

Automotive Cyber Security - now there's a startup idea.