Gagging Orders and Car Security
Discussion
Volkswagen seem to object to a blackhat presentation "Dismantling Megamos Crypto: Wirelessly Lockpicking a Vehicle Immobilizer" and have taken a gagging order against it on the TheRegister & BBC
davepoth said:
It'll be out before long. Presumably it's on a computer, and computers have a nasty habit of being hacked. Added to that, if one person has done it, others can't be far behind. This sounds pretty much identical to the BMW method.
I thought the BMW thing was to do with easy access to the OBD port?Art0ir said:
I thought the BMW thing was to do with easy access to the OBD port?
The BMW one was two issues - first was the ability to add a new key via ODB port without any safeguards and second was a vulnerability in alarm system which allowed access to ODB port without alarm trigger after breaking window or forcing lock around to drop window. If BMW had just required something like an original key to be present, when programming a new one, then it is likely issue would not have happened.
Yea sounds like what I had heard. This sounds like an entirely wireless solution/issue.
I remember reading a story on Jalopnik a few years back saying Eastern European gangs were sitting in vans full of wireless equipment and laptops to "capture" the wireless signals and crack them as people pulled up in service stops and locked their cars.
I remember reading a story on Jalopnik a few years back saying Eastern European gangs were sitting in vans full of wireless equipment and laptops to "capture" the wireless signals and crack them as people pulled up in service stops and locked their cars.
Art0ir said:
Yea sounds like what I had heard. This sounds like an entirely wireless solution/issue.
I remember reading a story on Jalopnik a few years back saying Eastern European gangs were sitting in vans full of wireless equipment and laptops to "capture" the wireless signals and crack them as people pulled up in service stops and locked their cars.
Hence why rolling code alarms were then the norm, as capturing the loce code it was then different to the code needed to open the car again.I remember reading a story on Jalopnik a few years back saying Eastern European gangs were sitting in vans full of wireless equipment and laptops to "capture" the wireless signals and crack them as people pulled up in service stops and locked their cars.
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