This is a detective story about how a car was stolen - and how it uncovered an epidemic of high-tech car theft. It begins with a tweet. In April 2022, my friend Ian Tabor tweeted that vandals had been at his car, pulling apart the headlight and unplugging the cables. It seemed like pointless vandalism, the kind of thing that makes it impossible to have nice things. Then three months later it happened again. This time the bumper was pulled away and the headlight unplugged. But it turned out neith...