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Re:When Your Used Car Is a Little Too ‘Mobile’ by RandomBacon on Thursday February 06, 2020 @03:44PM (#22260092)
I'm curious, would it be possible for a malicious person to create a bunch of VMs running the app and brute force VINs to get access to thousands of vehicles and do things all at the same time?

As it is, it already sounds like a theif's dream: no special, suspicious tools required: just a burner phone with an app, walk up to a car, enter the VIN, unlock doors, steal stuff.

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Re:When Your Used Car Is a Little Too ‘Mobile’ by fortytw2 on Thursday February 06, 2020 @10:32PM (#22263001)
VINs roughly follow patterns, so if you know one, you can figure out many other cars with very little brute force effort.

vinwiki probably has a guide explaining them somewhere if you search

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Re:When Your Used Car Is a Little Too ‘Mobile’ by rad_gruchalski on Thursday February 06, 2020 @04:23PM (#22260486)
No, it’s not possible: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22259046
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