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

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

  • sebinspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    8 months ago

    To be fair, I think we ignore the security of physical locks. Atleast one must get physical access to the lock in order to pick it.

    Or even password books. Atleast someone has to get physical access to said book, which requires knowing it exists in the first place.

    Does that make them better? No, not imo, but it is an aspect of these things that often gets overlooked

    • Aa!@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      8 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

      • sebinspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 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.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 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.

    • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      This is lockpickinglawyer and today I’m going to show you picking 100 locks in 100 seconds