Lee Duna to [email protected]English • 10 months agoRevealed: car industry was warned keyless vehicles vulnerable to theft a decade agowww.theguardian.commessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1537cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1537external-linkRevealed: car industry was warned keyless vehicles vulnerable to theft a decade agowww.theguardian.comLee Duna to [email protected]English • 10 months agomessage-square48fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•10 months agoThis seems a lot more complicated and much worse than just using actually cryptographically secure keys to verify that it’s the real key.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•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?
This seems a lot more complicated and much worse than just using actually cryptographically secure keys to verify that it’s the real key.
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
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?