Car Thieves and Insurers Vote On Keyless Car Security

RockDoctor writes: The BBC reports that Britain's car thieves, rapidly followed by Britain's car insurance companies, have been expressing their opinions on the security of keyless car entry and/or control systems. The thieves are happy to steal them (often using equipment intended for dealer maintenance of the vehicles) and in consequence the insurance companies are refusing to insure such vehicles (or to accept new policies on such vehicles) unless they are parked overnight in underground (or otherwise secured) car parks. I guess I won't be considering buying one of those for another generation. If ever.

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This most important thing in the article

[gewalker]

"By far the most common way of a car being stolen is still from thieves breaking into homes and stealing keys," he said.

Don't leave your keys in the obvious places, including the spare keys.

For bonus points: Have some keys labeled "neighbor's house" that are useless.

Re:Key or keyless, all the same

[fahrbot-bot]

;According to BMW their so-called "security" is so secured that there are BILLIONS of combination in their "secure key" system

Well there's the problem right there - obviously they didn't take computer security seriously or they'd realize that billions of combinations hardly gives a brute-force hacking simpleton time tor their coffee to cool

It only works if you say "BILLIONS of combinations" in Car Sagan's voice.

Re: Key or keyless, all the same

[afidel]

Rate limiting would make ddosing a country club parking lot lots of fun.