Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoRevealed: car industry was warned keyless vehicles vulnerable to theft a decade agowww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square55fedilinkarrow-up1542arrow-down114cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
arrow-up1528arrow-down1external-linkRevealed: car industry was warned keyless vehicles vulnerable to theft a decade agowww.theguardian.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square55fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
minus-squareLedivin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down5·edit-29 months agoOr just not storing your key where it can be repeated 🤪 this attack is 100% mitigated by some distance or just fuckin’ aluminum foil.
minus-squareCalcium5332@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·9 months agoYou would need to put your keys in a faraday cage. Distance doesn’t matter, as they can just use a bigger antenna or better amplifier. You find footage of people using large loops of wire to capture the signal from the keys
minus-squarepiecat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·9 months agoSure, you could and probably should do that. But is that something the consumer should have to do? At what point is a design flaw/defect the consumer’s responsibility?
Or just not storing your key where it can be repeated 🤪 this attack is 100% mitigated by some distance or just fuckin’ aluminum foil.
You would need to put your keys in a faraday cage.
Distance doesn’t matter, as they can just use a bigger antenna or better amplifier. You find footage of people using large loops of wire to capture the signal from the keys
Sure, you could and probably should do that. But is that something the consumer should have to do?
At what point is a design flaw/defect the consumer’s responsibility?