Anna Witch

Have car companies addressed this vulnerability yet?

Don’t know about the article, but most have been doing relay attacks by just forwarding the rolling code sent by the key to unlock and then start the car. It works because keyless entry requires a transaction starting from the car, so you can effectively just stand between the car and wherever the keys are and do easy relay attacks.

Then they usually drive it to a nearby safe location first so they can just reprogram the keys.

I do feel like this could at least be cheaply mitigated by having an immobilizer for the gas pedal that stops throttle input if the key isn’t detected after a cooldown after moving a few feet, which would prevent thieves from being able to move the car very far after starting.

Unbelievable! How’s the community coping?

They struck gold in the most horrible way possible: People dependent on their cars + their car keeps getting stolen = infinite money printing machine

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Understandable or overkill?

Odd thing to be that annoyed by. I don’t understand people who obsess over the way other people’s houses look. Unless you have an expensive car or a project car it seems like a waste of good space to store a car in the garage. But hey, to each their own.

If I had a garage it would totally be used for shop space and storage. Most people here seem to use their garages as additional space. My car can survive the rain just fine outside. The tools and equipment I wish I had space for, not so much.

Shame you let other people’s reasonable decisions bother you. Not everyone wants to obsess over opening a car.

Garage Security Vulnerabilities Exposed?

Garages aren’t at all secure, FYI. There are a number of ways in, from physically hooking the release that hangs from the opening mechanism, to cloning the wireless fob (much, much easier than car fobs.)

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Physical Security Consideration Overlooked?> To be fair, I think we ignore the security of physical locks. Atleast one must get physical access to the lock in order to pick it.

Or even password books. Atleast someone has to get physical access to said book, which requires knowing it exists in the first place.

Does that make them better? No, not imo, but it is an aspect of these things that often gets overlooked

Key security improvements needed?

Both, honestly. But the real problem in this case is the keys that can open and start a car with their mere presence. A relay attack makes bypassing them trivial, and when a large number of people leave their keys at the front door, it’s not difficult to give it a shot.

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Keyless cars still at risk?

How do you perceive Reddit’s trajectory with its IPO?

I got one even though I’ve not posted in months, let it go when I made an account here. Old account though so maybe whatever algorithm they used didn’t look for recency. I don’t think I’m interested, it seems to me they have already passed the peak and are on their way down, and going public will surely just accelerate the decline.

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What are the benefits of each tier?

I got one a week ago.

I did some digging on who gets what when and over the course of about a week and a half they have three tiers.

I think the first was 200K+, then I think 50K+, and then 10K+ off the top of my head.

The reason you are here)

8 y.o. account, 23k post karma, 64k comment karma. So, not that much. Sadly can’t tell you over how many posts/comments, because the API Tools that used to count that all are dead. Obviously.

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Opinions on Reddit’s IPO offer?

What aspects of the book stood out to you?

I would say it is an okay book. It’s a little too optimistic on the human side which his books all tend to be. It’s worth a read though of only to give some idea of possibilities.

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How can we balance environmental concerns with aviation needs?

It’s mostly landing/takeoff records. Big airports have takeoff and landing fees and would keep records such as this for accounting and legal reasons. Being a major airport like LAX means it’s probably mostly private/commercial jets, but also plenty of small time hobbyist aviators are probably wrapped up in this, and would be the only victim here ( general aviation pilots tend to use smaller, local airports but still on occasion hit the big ones).

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How can we focus on more impactful solutions?

What do you think about wealth redistribution?

Quite a lot…