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- This doesn't really surprise anyone too much, does it? Electronics are just as prone to hacking / theft as anything else. Years ago (too many for me to think about) keyless entry systems were touted as being substantially more secure than keys.
I love the keyless entry, and our cars also have the keypad on the door. Takes a real effort these days to lock oneself out of a car... although my wife and daughter have managed to... Brian in Michigan wrote:
I had an email sent to me a couple of years ago to where the thief's are nearby and catch the signal of of your key FOB when you lock the door and there is a corresponding code to go with it to unlock it. Since then I lock the door with the inside button. Maybe it works and maybe it doesn't but it is a habit now.
X-2- I had an email sent to me a couple of years ago to where the thief's are nearby and catch the signal of of your key FOB when you lock the door and there is a corresponding code to go with it to unlock it. Since then I lock the door with the inside button. Maybe it works and maybe it doesn't but it is a habit now.
- And mostly lazy. :)
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Many decades ago I watched a television program that featured a masked auto parts robber. With a jack he crawled beneath a parked Camaro and (I believe this is correct) 4-3/4 minutes later he emerged dragging a highly coveted transmission.
Talented crooks scare me to death.
I agree. Thankfully that type of talent is rare with crooks.
Most are really kind of dumb,or sloppy, or the cops would not catch them.- Many decades ago I watched a television program that featured a masked auto parts robber. With a jack he crawled beneath a parked Camaro and (I believe this is correct) 4-3/4 minutes later he emerged dragging a highly coveted transmission.
Talented crooks scare me to death. - I think I'll keep forever our two vehicles that are over 12 years old and hope beyond hope that none of the new vehicles around us ever go berserk:
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/02/tech/cnn10-future-of-driving/?hpt=hp_c2
I spent over thirty years of my career working in the manufacture of integrated circuits (i.e. "chips", "microchips", "ICs", "etc.") ... people have no idea how prone to failure these can be. It's very scary what can happen when they fail within the ever-more complex systems they're being put into.
Due to costs, personal vehicles will never have the redundancies, backups, and parallel systems in them that military electronics systems do - and we all read in the news about the failures (and many are kept secret) in these systems. - That is a fairly common device, what it does is this:
Most auto "Fobs" work on one of a very lmited (like 1) Radio frequency. and there are only so many possible unlock codes.. It simply sends them one after the other till CLICK it unlocks.
Won't work on my car though.. No Electronic lock, needs a key.
That said.. I've opened many locked doors, including a few with high security locks, and all without a key. (Very well trained B&E Auto man, got most of my training from the Michigan State Police no less.. I mean, if you now how to do it, you know how to catch 'em doing it).
Used to own a car I could open the door FASTER without the key in fact. - Shhh, they might think your parking spot is some kind of depository.
- Can they come get my Highlander?
