Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoRevealed: car industry was warned keyless vehicles vulnerable to theft a decade agowww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up1541arrow-down114cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1527arrow-down1external-linkRevealed: car industry was warned keyless vehicles vulnerable to theft a decade agowww.theguardian.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square56fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareLedivin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down5·edit-210 months agoOr just not storing your key where it can be repeated 🤪 this attack is 100% mitigated by some distance or just fuckin’ aluminum foil.
minus-squareCalcium5332@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·10 months agoYou 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
minus-squarepelespiritlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoCan’t wrapping a key in aluminum foil act as a faraday cage?
minus-squarepiecat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·10 months agoSure, 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?
Or just not storing your key where it can be repeated 🤪 this attack is 100% mitigated by some distance or just fuckin’ aluminum foil.
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
Can’t wrapping a key in aluminum foil act as a faraday cage?
Just toss them in the microwave
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?