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Revealed: car industry was warned keyless vehicles vulnerable to theft a decade ago (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This seems a lot more complicated and much worse than just using actually cryptographically secure keys to verify that it's the real key.

[–] Ledivin 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Or just not storing your key where it can be repeated 🤪 this attack is 100% mitigated by some distance or just fuckin' aluminum foil.

[–] Calcium5332 6 points 9 months ago

You would need to put your keys in a faraday cage.

Distance doesn't matter, as they can just use a bigger antenna or better amplifier. You find footage of people using large loops of wire to capture the signal from the keys

[–] piecat 6 points 9 months ago

Sure, you could and probably should do that. But is that something the consumer should have to do?

At what point is a design flaw/defect the consumer's responsibility?