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Re:Attacking My Landlord's Boiler by rsynnott on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @06:15AM (#43760587)
Some risk of collateral damage in the form of randomly controlling other peoples' boilers if your transmitter turns out to be more powerful than the one in the thermostat, tho...
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Re:Attacking My Landlord's Boiler by frontlodjkgi on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @06:33AM (#43760671)
I imagine even encrypted messages could be replayed if the protocol wasn't designed against it. It also doesen't say what kind of encryption it uses, it could be a very weak in-house "encryption", for all we know it could be only an unknown encoding.
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Re:Attacking My Landlord's Boiler by videah on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @10:58AM (#43763006)
The thermostat is paired with the boiler, the signals bundle the unique ID’s of each so this won’t happen. Otherwise there would be a risk the original thermostat would do the same.
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