Very OT: Stealing a car in under 1 minute

[Kitaman]

We all love our technology but thieves love it better. Talk about smart homes, e-wallet, smart cars and other home computerized technology, are we and our possessions really safer? I bet some people even have that tech were you use your phone to unlock your front/back doors. Old school stuff will make its way back into our culture sooner or later.

Take a look at this and marvel:

 

[pj]

I think this is just a mistake from Mercedes. Why should the key transmit its door-opening and ignition-igniting message in response to a radio signal? That's an obvious security risk, and when would a car owner ever need to send a radio message to the key? Presumably this is a backdoor Mercedes built in so that they could take a random key and find out what car it belongs to.

 

[Son of Robert]

Wild.

 

[polycom]

This is dumb engineering. Secondly as tech advances thieves advance as well. This doesn’t mean we should stop tech advances.

 

[HCope]

Few years ago I was reading on a BMW forum how thieves were either smashing windows or finding unlocked cars and plugging in devices into the OBDII port and simply reprogramming blank/stolen key fobs to work with the victims car. Same thing they could steal the car in a minute or two.

Crazy here that it's just using their own key's signal.

 

[pj]

Few years ago I was reading on a BMW forum how thieves were either smashing windows or finding unlocked cars and plugging in devices into the OBDII port and simply reprogramming blank/stolen key fobs to work with the victims car. Same thing they could steal the car in a minute or two.

Crazy here that it's just using their own key's signal.

The devices they plug into the OBDII port were probably stolen from the car manufacturers.

 

[JMick]

A manual transmission is the best theft deterrent around

 

[Devland]

I read that car manufacturers have no incentive to make cars theft proof. If a car gets stolen and not recovered, the victim buys another car with the insurance money. Why would they want to stop that?

 

[RayRay34]

We all love our technology but thieves love it better. Talk about smart homes, e-wallet, smart cars and other home computerized technology, are we and our possessions really safer? I bet some people even have that tech were you use your phone to unlock your front/back doors. Old school stuff will make its way back into our culture sooner or later.

Take a look at this and marvel:

Interesting, although I wonder why are they wearing all white onesies?

 

[Rocktheworld]

Wish there were gifs of Donut (The Wire) for me to post ITT...