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Re:Thieves boosting signal from key fobs inside homes to ste... by conanthe on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @07:54PM (#18614389)
It seems like this is easy to do with cryptography. Sounds like a gross negligence on the car makers part, similar to storing passwords in plain text.
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Re:Thieves boosting signal from key fobs inside homes to ste... by crooked-v on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @07:55PM (#18614396)
"Easy to do" how? Please give an example, not an analogy.
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Re:Thieves boosting signal from key fobs inside homes to ste... by conanthe on Thursday December 06, 2018 @06:58AM (#18617238)
The same way as MFA works. Every time the key generates different token that can't be reused. This renders replay of signal useless.
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