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

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Experts alerted motor trade to security risks of ‘smart key’ systems which have now fuelled highest level of car thefts for a decade.

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[-] baronvonj@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

The OP's quote leaves out the "It is being targeted at Hyundai and Kia models." part. From what I can find those brands are (were?) susceptible to rollback where sending an old code reactivates codes that came after it

https://www.reddit.com/r/flipperzero/comments/z2fq6h/broken_rolling_code_system_old_sent_signal/

[-] kurwa@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I think you would still have to wait for the owner to use their keys.

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