Re:Police admit they're 'stumped' by mystery car thefts
by mindcrime on Wednesday June 05, 2013 @12:51PM
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If they were using key reprogramming/hacking there's no reason to 'always use' the passenger side front door as claimed in the video.
It's a fair point, but I don't know that I'd take that at face value. That could have just been a subjective assessment that got repeated as fact. Without us having access to the actual videos or the raw numbers, it's hard to say.
So I don't think it's clear that these thieves are using any of those techniques.
Sure, and I'm not saying it's 100% certain that this is exactly how the thieves are operating.. just pointing out that it's well known that modern cars are vulnerable... if there are additional, as yet unreported vulnerabilities, would anybody be surprised?
I imagine it might be stupider, like maybe there's a way to induce the unlock button to trigger via induction or something.
That actually strikes me as semi-reasonable, without having research the matter in any depth. Where were you on the night of January 12th, when a black Suburban was stolen ...
It's a fair point, but I don't know that I'd take that at face value. That could have just been a subjective assessment that got repeated as fact. Without us having access to the actual videos or the raw numbers, it's hard to say.
So I don't think it's clear that these thieves are using any of those techniques.
Sure, and I'm not saying it's 100% certain that this is exactly how the thieves are operating.. just pointing out that it's well known that modern cars are vulnerable... if there are additional, as yet unreported vulnerabilities, would anybody be surprised?
I imagine it might be stupider, like maybe there's a way to induce the unlock button to trigger via induction or something.
That actually strikes me as semi-reasonable, without having research the matter in any depth. Where were you on the night of January 12th, when a black Suburban was stolen ...