How thieves can hack into your car and tips to stop it

Hackers and criminals are getting even more sophisticated, this time hacking into your car key fobs.

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[chipabrick]

I actually watched someone do this at a hotel. He walked behind a car with a tablet and I watched him unlock it. It was 2 AM and I called down to the front desk and they actually caught him.

[littledragon]

It's time to bring back "The Club" for those old enough to remember what they are.

[shak]

Check out that shopping cart 🛒 flying away at 3:08 😆

[madbug]

The luxury of driving a 2005 Toyota Camry. No one wants it even if I left the keys in it.

[commissionrealtordiscount]

As a Realtor driving all over California representing home buyers & sellers, I can tell u that $29 Apple Airtag I planted in a secret spot in my own car was the best bang for the buck & worth every penny I spent :)

[Dakkibaby]

Yep. That's how my 2020 car was stolen. I live in a gated and inside building apartment. How these people got in was through a stolen master postal key, then they went down to the completely gated garage...started to try to unlock any car with an electronic key fob and mine just so happened to unlock. They drove the car 40 min away, took everything inside (thank god no damage), and it was under my hands (not LAPD) to find the car. LAPD was useless in this case; they told us they would call us with any updates.
How we did it was called BMW and they located the car for me, gave us an approximate address to where the car was (in an impound lot). When we got down there 3 days later they told us that if we didn't do our own research the car could have been there for 30 days plus a $300 a day impound fee. LAPD is so overburdened with serious cases that stolen cars are some of the last on their list.

[FuctByTheGovernment]

Make fobs with a on/off switch. Simple solution turn on unlock car then turn it off. It's not rocket science. Putting it in a metal box or some fancy bag that blocks radio-frequency just seemed really freaking stupid and inconvenient to me. With an on-off switch you could still have it connected to your belt loop and operated one-handed if need be. People over complicate the simplest things.

[julie]

Keys were so simple. All the tech is a way to sell a car hundreds of times.

[TransitAndTeslas]

The rolling code technology has been around in garage door openers for 20 years prior. Why didn’t the car companies think of this???

[rootbeer]

Good thing I drive a post 2021 model, so I pray my manufacturer has rolling codes. Is there a way to check if my car has it?

[Bigmedia]

It’s been going on for years Geniuses. Just get a real key 🔑

[JP-gwts]

Time to start putting on “the club” again. Yes they can cut it but the lazy factor in todays modern thieves is high.

[Slashed]

No need for all this trouble, better to just break the window since there’ll be no consequences

[PosiFwd]

That is why when I leave my car, I manually push the button on the door. I will click the fob to unlock the car if I am getting ready to leave sometimes.

[TheLifetraveler]

Quick solution for folks who have to push a button on the keyfob to lock or unlock their car.
When I park my car now, I use the lock switch inside the door to lock it, not the key fob.
That means I am not transmitting a signal from my key fob to my car, that can be intercepted and magnified.
So any thief monitoring the airwaves never gets a signal from me, until I am coming back to my car and about to drive away.

Now it you have one of those key fobs that don't require you push a button on it. So that all you have to do is touch the handle of the car. Well, that means it is always transmitting and you signal can be intercepted.

Here in Metro ATL, a Range Rover driver left his car in a parking lot and went into a restaurant to eat. Since his key fob was still transmitting, he actually watched the thieves walk up to his car, start it and drive away. Before he could even exit the restaurant.

Lastly, if you park your car outside of your home and the key fob is the continuous transmission kind. Thieves can pick up your signal, start it and drive away.

[fredlandry]

I would rather have an old fashioned key.

[roahnosh]

Anything connected to a network can get hacked. Just get a real physical key.

[CL-mixv]

Technology is wonderful nowadays, make our life easier than ever, no doubt!
but too much will be actually backfire. Anyone experienced the auto faucet frustration? Auto flush toilet bowl?(as soon as you finish putting the paper pat on, just before you using it, everything flushed away).
If one day, we do not have to walk, do not have to drive, do not have to clean, maybe robots will even feed you cashier needed, no driver needed, no chef needed, robots will build what we human will do? Less or even no more job opportunities, we neither need to use brain nor body muscles anymore, is it good or disaster? If everything controlled by technology, what if anything goes wrong or maliciously hacked?

If our life been taken over by high tech, does it make this world better or the end of this world?

[mikew]

Manual transmission make a car theft proof

[autumnicleaf]

Just take one of the wheels off, stick it under your arm, and walk into your office, house or go shopping. A thief cannot drive with three wheels. It's so easy.