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Mobil SpeedPass, Various Car RFID Car Keys Cracked
44BSD writes "Crypto-enabled RFID products, including Mobil SpeedPass and various car keys, have been defeated utterly by Avi Rubin, et. al. Details are at rfidanalysis.org. An academic paper is also available."
The car keys aren't such a big deal, because you'd also need the key itself for the mechanical part of the lock. The speedpass IS a big deal, because it's single-factor authentication, and people could go around charging gas to your account.
I'm probably going to get modded into oblivion for saying this.... But why don't people just not read dupes? I mean, it's not really hurting you that it's there...and some of us didn't see the first one, but see the second one. It just doesn't seem worth complaining over.
Before you mod me funny, think, perhaps I was insightfully funny?
Speedpasses are not there for the benefit of the consumer, any more than the uscan at the supermarket.
There's a debatable benefit for the key bugs for your car ignition - debatable because anyone can still steal/strip your car, and it gives people a false sense of security, as well as adding another layer to "what can go wrong now"...
Speaking of which - Pontiac anti-theft radios. Leave your headlights on overnight, and you can't get a jump-start, because you have to re-code the radio first. Try that at -30 (and no, it wasn't me).
This story is similar to the car key RFID system being cracked but if you look carefully the content is actually different and provides a more technical perspective to the situation. The other one was fluff compared to this. People here need to stop being so nit-picky because I find that most of these "duplicated" articles are informative and contain interesting content that I would have not seen otherwise.