New Cars Vulnerable To Wireless Theft

tkrotchko writes "In a story published by Technology Review, researchers have demonstrated multiple times that they can bypass the security of wireless entry and ignition systems to take a car without the owner's permission. As researchers in the article point out, car security systems will begin have a real impact to every day use if a thief can simply walk up to your car and drive it away. Although this article is light on technical details, a companion article shows how the researchers accomplished the security bypass. An interesting read, and certainly something that will no doubt be the subject of a new movie any day now."

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[ThunderBird89]

Shameless self-promotion: I covered this in my blog when Hackaday did an article on a study about this.

The real threat isn't just someone stealing your car, imagine parking a car on the overpass above a busy highway, with a high-power transmitter, and beaming a bit of code at cars that disables the brakes. Or how easy untraceable assassinations will become: since the code can be made to erase itself after execution, nobody can prove it wasn't a technical error but sabotage.