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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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[-] sebinspace@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I’d also like to point out that most modern vehicles use rolling codes to prevent replay attacks. I’ve only recently learned this as I was concerned about devices like the Flipper making these sorts of techniques to people that otherwise would lack the expertise to put such a device together themselves

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