Transponder keys...
Transponder keys...
not so safe?
I found this article on www.wired.com
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.08/carkey.html
Pretty interesting/scary read.
Just a "heads-up" for everyone.
I found this article on www.wired.com
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.08/carkey.html
Pretty interesting/scary read.
Just a "heads-up" for everyone.
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"He called an acquaintance who worked at a Honda dealership. I listened, awestruck, as Montes fed the guy a barely credible story about a cousin who had dropped his keys down a sewer. The dealership employee was at home but evidently could access the Honda database online. I gave Honky’s VIN to Montes, who passed it along to his friend. We soon had the prescribed sequence of pulls, which I scribbled down in my notebook.
I walked outside and approached Honky. The door lock would have been easy – a thief would have used a jiggle key, and a stranded motorist would have had a locksmith cut a fresh one. I just wrapped the grip of my key in tinfoil to jam the transponder. The key still fit, but it no longer started the car.
Then I grabbed the emergency brake handle between the front seats and performed the specific series of pumps, interspersed with rotations of the ignition between the On and Start positions. After my second attempt, Honky’s hybrid engine awoke with its customary whisper.
I had just jacked my own car."
GREAT, JUST GREAT
I walked outside and approached Honky. The door lock would have been easy – a thief would have used a jiggle key, and a stranded motorist would have had a locksmith cut a fresh one. I just wrapped the grip of my key in tinfoil to jam the transponder. The key still fit, but it no longer started the car.
Then I grabbed the emergency brake handle between the front seats and performed the specific series of pumps, interspersed with rotations of the ignition between the On and Start positions. After my second attempt, Honky’s hybrid engine awoke with its customary whisper.
I had just jacked my own car."
GREAT, JUST GREAT
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i think the story just shows how messed up the insurance industry is. Using the transponder as a loop hole to deny claims, even though they rape us on insurance rates.
its just like those insurance companies that were denying Hurricane Katrina victims because the hurricane winds didn't destroy there houses, but the flooding it brought did and would go under there flood insurance.
its just like those insurance companies that were denying Hurricane Katrina victims because the hurricane winds didn't destroy there houses, but the flooding it brought did and would go under there flood insurance.
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Rep Power: 0 the question comes down to " why do we even have or want insurance" We we do need it, or its the perfect situation for an insruance claiim, we refuse to ultulize the service because we are scared of upping our montly costs.
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