Re:Thieves boosting signal from key fobs inside homes to ste...
by blattimwind on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @01:38PM
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> It’s disturbing that a vulnerability like this isn’t caught as a show-stopper before the technology is sold to consumers.
Everyone knew about this for many years. Interactive transponders are quite old (late 90s? early 2000s?) and were designed to mitigate attacks like this one (because the user has to interact with the transponder, i.e. press the button it has for it to work, all passive attacks fail).
Everyone knew about this for many years. Interactive transponders are quite old (late 90s? early 2000s?) and were designed to mitigate attacks like this one (because the user has to interact with the transponder, i.e. press the button it has for it to work, all passive attacks fail).