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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."
Sorry, Couldn't resist.
This isn't an 4/1 joke, is it?
Especially this part:
How about an explosive device that sets itself off when the right vehicle passes nearby?
Great, first I have to worry about the tolls on I-44 through Oklahoma, now I got to worry about exploding vehicles?
Maybe in the future we can all roll to work in giant hamster balls. Getting groceries home will be a bitch tho...
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Extensively, on /. a couple of years back - with relevant links. Naturally, I was "troll modded" to -1, while also growing a flaming trail of replies, some dozen long.
I'd like to see MedicatedDad's post to the front page as vindication, but it IS April 1st...
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The government won't use this information to track you down to that seedy little motel on the side of route 9, where you cavort with no less than 3 women other than your wife. We only care about catching bad guys. Your wife however...
If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear but fear itself.
Time to break out the tin foil hats so they can't read my tire pressures.
Um, don't you mean tin foil rims?
Or tin foil hub caps.
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I'm having trouble grasping the concepts, can someone put it into a nice analogy using cars? What... wait... damnit.
Sure, and you will then be denied the privilege of driving on the road that has the sensor that reads your tire pressure.
By George, I think you've got it!
- real hackers don't have sigs -
Of course you could always surround your tires in tin foil if you are THAT paranoid. I hear that microwaving your tires for 15 seconds each will also disable the RFID tags.
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... and I can stuff beans up my nose if I want. But I don't.
I just want to know what the cover sheet for all those TPS reports is going to look like.
you didn't use purchased tin foil did you? what about the rfid embedded in that?
REAL paranoics mine, smelt and roll out their OWN tinfoil.
I have mod points. The reign of terror begins now.
I'm glad to see that there's other right-minded folk like me on here! Keep up the good work Mr. Transporter!
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My main concern is that some hacker kid is going to break into the traffic management network and use their monitoring systems to analyze the tire pressure on my trucks to figure out which ones are decoys and which one actually has the gold in it, at which point by manipulating the traffic signals he'll coerce it over to the right spot and blow up the street out from underneath it so it drops underground, where thieves are waiting to steal the gold.
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