A secure democratic Net is a fundamental right

An article in today's *Arkansas Democrat-Gazette* tells of 1500 gallons ofgasoline 

stolen from a station.  It seems the gasoline pumps are shippedwith a default

 key-code and the station owners are failing to change thecodes.  

"Thieves can sometimes purchase a key and the factory default codeson the Internet. 

 If the station owner has not changed the default code,then the thief can manually enter 

the codes to put the machine instand-alone mode and steal gasoline."  

Tells how after the particularstation had closed for the night someone had 

reprogrammed it and the policediscovered long lines of cars waiting there to fill 

their tanks for free.All but two got away.

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/25.36.html#subj7.1

never thought of that, could you hack it if they were ip connected ? Imagine that....