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Re:More car hacking, knowing only the VIN number of the car by kfarr on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @04:42PM (#33808178)
Probably too much entropy with VIN numbers but could imagine brute forcing to activate as many vehicles as possible as fast as possible
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Re:More car hacking, knowing only the VIN number of the car by gdavisson on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @06:42PM (#33809727)
VINs are generally visible from outside the car (on the dashboard). That means until this was fixed you could walk up to a car, read its VIN, and remotely unlock & start it.
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