Posted on 10/09/2024 8:10:26 AM PDT by EBH
Newer vehicles have very bright LED lights.
That’s a major reason why carjackings are more common.
United Services Automobile Association.
I live in a nice suburb/country town, and have been pulled over by local cops several times in my old truck, always at night, on my way home from the city
They find I'm an old white guy and local resident (and a couple of them, I know their parents), they make some excuse like "your license plate light is too dim" before they let me go.
I don't mind. The town bans section 8 housing, we haven't yet had illegals dumped on us, neighbors know each other, and if you forget to lock your door at night, you'll be fine - so if our town cops profiling junk cars coming off the interstate is the price to pay, that's OK with me.
The cops think somebody used a device to grab my fob frequency and steal my car. I had both sets of keys in the house and one by the front door, so I think it's possible.
Unconfused me please. What do brighter lights have to do with increased number of carjackings?
https://www.abc6.com/aaa-warns-of-thieves-hacking-key-fobs-stealing-cars/
The AAA released a statement this week, warning of the new ways thieves are getting into and stealing cars.
If your vehicle is operated by a key fob, the signal on it, can be hacked, allowing thieves to access your vehicle, and drive away in your car.
“With these amplifiers they’re able to get in and sometimes even start a vehicle,” Diana Gugliotta, the Director of Public Affairs for AAA Northeast said.
Millions of Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple Website Bug
Researchers found a flaw in a Kia web portal that let them track millions of cars, unlock doors, and start engines at will—the latest in a plague of web bugs that’s affected a dozen carmakers.
https://www.wired.com/story/kia-web-vulnerability-vehicle-hack-track/
Today, a group of independent security researchers revealed that they’d found a flaw in a web portal operated by the carmaker Kia that let the researchers reassign control of the internet-connected features of most modern Kia vehicles—dozens of models representing millions of cars on the road—from the smartphone of a car’s owner to the hackers’ own phone or computer. By exploiting that vulnerability and building their own custom app to send commands to target cars, they were able to scan virtually any internet-connected Kia vehicle’s license plate and within seconds gain the ability to track that car’s location, unlock the car, honk its horn, or start its ignition at will.
Asians usually won't shoot you with a 12 gauge loaded with buckshot when you kick in their door.
ping!
if you buy a kia you deserve what you are getting.
I know that Range Rover has a problem also.
fortunately this attack vector will not work on any of my cars.
Stealing is also illegal????
“The Beater Car’’. The “Model T’’ of transportation for the working class!
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