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Revealed: car industry was warned keyless vehicles vulnerable to theft a decade ago (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 9 months ago by Bebo@literature.cafe to c/technology@lemmy.world

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

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[–] aaaa@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 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.