This is exactly the reason they would never consider lock-picking techniques at lock symposium.

And hacking techniques at a computer security conference.

One needs to understand how to thwart privacy in order to gain their own.

I guess it can make sense to give a lecture about war on a peace conference.

At the end of the article, they discuss how the report stresses a need for more secure transmission systems on the CAN bus, as well as potentially including things like permissions-based security

It's just another biometric matching system. So it might be used as a form of sign-in to your car's network or data, better than taking your hands off the wheel to key a password. Or a LoJack complement that identifies your car's thief.