After more than 100 drivers in Austin, Texas found their cars disabled or the horns honking non-stop, an ex-car salesman was accused of taking advantage of a web-based vehicle immobilization system.

"Police with Austin’s High Tech Crime Unit on Wednesday arrested 20-year-old Omar Ramos-Lopez, a former Texas Auto Center employee who was laid off last month, and allegedly sought revenge by bricking the cars sold from the dealership’s four Austin-area lots," writes Wired's Kevin Poulsen.

"The dealership used a system called Webtech Plus as an alternative to repossessing vehicles that haven’t been paid for," Poulsen writes. "Operated by Cleveland-based Pay Technologies, the system lets car dealers install a small black box under vehicle dashboards that responds to commands issued through a central website, and relayed over a wireless pager network. The dealer can disable a car’s ignition system, or trigger the horn to begin honking, as a reminder that a payment is due."

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