Using Tire Pressure Sensors To Spy On Cars

AngryDad writes "Beginning last September, all vehicles sold in the US have been required to have Tire Pressure Monitoring System (TPMS) installed. An article up at HexView enumerates privacy issues introduced by TPMS, and some of them look pretty scary. Did you know that traffic sensors on highways can be adopted to read TPMS data and track individual vehicles? How about an explosive device that sets itself off when the right vehicle passes nearby? TPMS has been discussed in the past, but I haven't seen its privacy implications analyzed before. Fortunately the problem is easy to fix: encrypt TPMS data the way keyless entry systems do."

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Okay, now this pisses me off.

[ElGanzoLoco]

How about an explosive device that sets itself off when the right vehicle passes nearby?

Okay, so there are probably some actual privacy issues arising from being able to track passing vehicles remotely, but come on, that comment above is so over the top it's not even funny.

The bearded men with the funny accent are not out to get you. The black helicopters are not after you, or your car, or your gun(s). And officials / VIPs actually at risk of being blown up by an IED - not that I know any off the top of my head - would have the radio signal jammed anyways.

Grow. The. Fuck. Up. Seriously.

(okay, or maybe it's april fools, and I'm drunk and didn't note the sarcasm / joke in the ferkin' summary)