Not really. The old system was less secure. All you needed to screw with it was a walkie-talkie capable of shortwave transmission and knowing where to stand. To take control over it would take some specific equipment but just making it fuck up was easy. We had one that was next door to a trucker and every weekend he was home his cb and leaner system would blitz the radio if he parked in one part of his yard.

I'd honestly say this is more a case of the right people over money not thinking anymore would do this. As no one HAD done it. Now that it's something that people know about it they'll probably fall over themselves trying to look like they were trying to fix it before the general public learned about it.

Never attribute to malice that which can be better explained by stupidity.