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Re:Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world by maistho on Monday November 09, 2026 @06:22AM (#50424099)
I'm always confounded by how bad most car security seems to be. I've given this about 5 seconds of thinking, and wouldn't it be pretty simple to do a local app-car setup step that generated a private key stored in the app and stored the public key in the car, requiring all commands to be signed with the private key in order to be accepted? There's no reason why the car manufacturers server should even be allowed to send commands to the car just based on a user account anyway.
Re:Unlocking any car from X brand in most of the world by sneakymichael on Monday November 09, 2026 @12:17PM (#50428474)
I believe that's how Tesla's app and car integration works.

It also, as a side benefit, allows the app to send the same commands – or at least an authorised subset – over Bluetooth, rather than via the internet; allowing control in underground car parks, etc.