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Hacking Kia: Remotely Controlling Cars With Just a License Plate. (samcurry.net)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 month ago (25 children)

Yeah... fuck this shit. This is part of the reason I still drive a nearly 20 year old vehicle. It has features I want, and can't be stolen via fucking API calls. Absolute insanity.

I think Hyundai/Kia group has done unfathomable damage to their brands. Kia, despite being a budget brand, wants to be seen as a legit competitor to Toyota or at least Nissan. Their corner cutting with the immobilizers and the resulting "USB" theft shit was bad enough. Now this exploit.

[–] chakan2 23 points 1 month ago (24 children)

They're just terrible cars. I've had two...they were great until they weren't. I literally had a screw fall out of the headliner the other day bringing it home from a nearly 1000$ exhaust patch/repair. It's not 10 years old yet and only has 60k miles.

The other one has had the engine replaced already (under warranty thank god).

We are likely replacing both of them next year. I'm never buying a Kia again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I had an '11 optima sx, right after the refresh. Beautiful car. Returned the lease on its 3rd engine.

1st one had a spark plug fail and basically melt. Piston seized. Had power, then it didn't, while doing 60 over a bridge.

2nd one went after an engine mount failed. Block ended up cracking.

Only consolation was that I was paying kia prices, not their over inflated sense of self pricing they try now.

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