Experts ​alerted motor trade to security risks of ‘smart key’ systems which have now fuelled highest level of car thefts for a decade.

  • Aa!
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    9 months ago

    Atleast one must get physical access to the lock in order to pick it.

    It’s a fair point, but if we’re taking about cars, I’d say physical access is a given. Keyless vehicles haven’t quite enabled remote car thefts just yet

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      39 months ago

      I’d also like to point out that most modern vehicles use rolling codes to prevent replay attacks. I’ve only recently learned this as I was concerned about devices like the Flipper making these sorts of techniques to people that otherwise would lack the expertise to put such a device together themselves

      • @NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        They can also take into account the time it takes to travel from the request to the response so if you’re 2x the distance away with a relay that somehow works in the middle, it would take too long and be rejected.