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Using Laptops to Steal Cars
Ant writes "Thieves are using laptops/notebooks to steal the most expensive luxury cars. Many of these cars have completely keyless ignitions and door locks, meaning it can all be done wirelessly. Thieves often follow a car until it gets left in a quiet area, and they can steal it in about 20 minutes..."
And thats why people will want a regular key. Its worked for hundreds of years on other things, so a car should be no problem.
All they really need to do is start randomizing the locks on cars, and not just use the same pattern...
yea, expensive, but safe.
Yay, I have a sig.
"While automakers and locksmiths are supposed to be the only groups that know where and how security information is stored in a car, the information eventually falls into the wrong hands."
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If for no other reason than to steal the headlights & rims.
A friend of mine knew some people that would go out in a 4 man team to steal rims. They had an expensive hydralic jack and some power tools. He said they were shady guys, but would do a NASCAR Pit Crew proud.
And that's not even the pro's.
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All I need it to do is advise me of its location, and if it's not where I think it should be, I want to snap a picture of whoever's in the driver's seat. Then, I'll either fax that picture and the car's location to the cops, or just wait for the perp to leave the car and go take it back myself.
Of course, wiring a 2 or three farad capacitor into the steering column so that I could zap him unconscious would be fun, too.
-jcr
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>While automakers and locksmiths are supposed to be the only groups that know where and how security information is stored in a car, the information eventually falls into the wrong hands.
If you replicate a "secret" a few million times, put it in places outside your control, and if you have no way of changing it in the field then you do not have a secret!
>"...There are weaknesses in any system," Tim Hart of the Auto Locksmith Association told the U.K.'s Auto Express magazine.
What, Mr. Hart, are the weaknesses in OpenSSH public key authentication? It sounds like the automakers are trying to roll their own crypto, with the usual results. Designing a crypto system is like playing chess with a grandmaster. You'll make a mistake somewhere, and your opponent will find that mistake and use it to break you.
As long as people make blunders like this we'll have fiascos like the TI chips with 40-bit encryption.
No it isn't. It takes 20 seconds to cut through the steering wheel to remove it.
You've just been lucky.
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Totally OT, and regarding your sig: A Coors Light and Guinness both have the same number of calories (in case you didn't know). You should slap that grad student.
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It's not like 99% of keyed systems were very secure. Except for the newer laser/dimple keys, thieves are going to easily get into your car.
A rock through the window defeats even the newer laser/dimple key systems.
The benefit of using a laptop, though, is that the thief doesn't have to engage in suspicious-looking activities like reaching through shattered safety glass on a car with a shrieking alarm, or fidgeting over the door lock with a bobby pin. Now they can just park a cargo van next to the target car, and sit in the back packet-sniffing to their heart's content without a passerby raising an eyebrow.
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Dude, you really need to get up to scratch on this whole "used car"-thing. Could save you a lot of money.
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