A Mysterious Car Theft with a Laptop in Houston

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Jeff Bennett, Thieves Use Car-Tech to Steal Vehicles; Video helps police probe disappearance of late-model autos. Wall Street Journal, July 6, 2016.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/thie ... eal-cars-1467744606

Note:
(a) The online, but not print, version contains a video clip of 2 minutes, with the following caption: "A homeowner's security-camera video shows thieves in Houston using a laptop to thwart electronic-ignition control and start a 2010 Jeep Wrangler and drive away.
(b) "In the Houston car theft, a home-security camera captures a man walking to the Jeep and opening the hood. Officer Woods said he suspects the man is cutting the alarm. About 10 minutes later, after a car door is jimmied open, another man enters the Jeep, works on the laptop and then backs the car out of the driveway."
(i) jimmy (n, v):
Online Etymology Dictionary, undated.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=jimmy
(ii) crowbar (tool)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowbar_(tool)
(iii) Zack Anderson (now of Levant Power Corp), Covert Entry Tools; Improvised locksmith tools.
http://web.mit.edu/zacka/www/nlias.html

There is no need to read it. Just view burglary tools he made. (Possession of burglary tools is a crime in Massachusetts and many other states.) The essay does not use jimmy, but uses the term "slim jim" of "slim jims" (twice altogether).