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TikTok 'Kia Challenge' fuels rise in using USB cables to steal cars
Yahoo ^ | July 31, 2022, | Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert

Posted on 08/01/2022 5:02:19 AM PDT by Leaning Right

Viral "Kia Challenge" videos posted to TikTok and YouTube have led to an increase in car thefts around the country as the instructional videos share the steps of how to steal a car using only a USB charging cord.

The videos, posted online by accounts including 414HypeHouse, show car thieves targeting unlocked Kia and Hyundai vehicles, removing the under-column cowl near the steering wheel and using a USB cord to start the stolen cars. Some videos show the thieves — called "Kia Boys" — riding around in the stolen cars and crashing or dumping them.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: automotive; china; crime; kia; theft
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So if you’ve got a Kia or a Hyundai, be sure to lock that car.

And as a side note, this “challenge” seems to have started on TikTok, then moved to other social media platforms. Trump warned the country about TikTok. Once again, Trump was right.

1 posted on 08/01/2022 5:02:19 AM PDT by Leaning Right
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To: Leaning Right

Would this be a RICO crime?


2 posted on 08/01/2022 5:11:13 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Leaning Right

Solo if a car can be hot wired with a USB cable what about voting machines? ... I’m just saying.....


3 posted on 08/01/2022 5:15:43 AM PDT by Cowman
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To: Cowman

Well, here’s one way to look at it:

You can hot-wire a Kia with a USB cable. That’s a design flaw.
But if you can hot-wire a voting machine with a USB cable, that’s a feature.


4 posted on 08/01/2022 5:21:11 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Cowman

Solo if a car can be hot wired with a USB cable what about voting machines? ... I’m just saying.....

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Not even analogous. You don’t even have to break into voting machines if you are working with the local election officials and coordinating with the DNC’s shadow groups. They’ll let you right in and your changes will be coordinated.

A usb hack into a kia/hyundai still requires you to enter the vehicle and break the stearing collumn


5 posted on 08/01/2022 5:24:49 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Leaning Right

TikTok a Chinese 5th column in America.


6 posted on 08/01/2022 5:30:37 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

If those frauding voting machines are killed outright, the crimes against the Republic will cease.

Voting fraudsters have forfeited their right to life


7 posted on 08/01/2022 5:40:15 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: bert

If Conservatives nationwide were to coordinate and announce - via a ‘leak’ designed to get an announcement from DHS - days before the election that various types of electronic voting machines had been hacked...

...we might very well have the most secure election in history when they’re pulled from use.


8 posted on 08/01/2022 6:13:01 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: Leaning Right

Is there a USB port under the column cowl? What on Earth for?


9 posted on 08/01/2022 6:31:43 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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To: Leaning Right

How does one unlock the steering without a key or removing the lock mechanism?


10 posted on 08/01/2022 6:46:56 AM PDT by 1raider1
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To: Leaning Right

My Hyundai doesn’t have remote locks ,LOL


11 posted on 08/01/2022 6:56:40 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: 1raider1

Modern Kias (and many others) don’t use keys any longer. Just push-button starting.


12 posted on 08/01/2022 7:00:56 AM PDT by Rio
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To: Rio

Some stripper trims still have keys.

Buy a base trim.


13 posted on 08/01/2022 7:04:10 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: 1raider1
How does one unlock the steering without a key or removing the lock mechanism?

The same way they've been doing it since the steering wheel lock was introduced. They either remove it they have time, or brute-force it if they don't. It's not a very big pin.

14 posted on 08/01/2022 7:06:35 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: Leaning Right
Trump warned the country about TikTok. Once again, Trump was right.

Yep, but nothing has bee done about it in Congress. They are too focused on investigating a trespass event and enjoying million dollar junkets to Taiwan at taxpayer expense.

15 posted on 08/01/2022 7:07:19 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: bert

Too late the Soros cheat machines are in EVERY swing state and they aren’t going anywhere


16 posted on 08/01/2022 7:11:42 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: 1Old Pro

> Trump warned the country about TikTok. Once again, Trump was right. ..
Yep, but nothing has bee done about it in Congress. <

As others have noted, TikTok is a ChiCom front organization. If the American people knew just how much ChiCom money influences Congress, there’d be a revolution tomorrow.

Here’s an example. Republican leader Mitch McConnell and his wife received a gift of at least $5 million from the wife’s father. And the father has VERY close ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

Nobody cares.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Chao#Controversies


17 posted on 08/01/2022 7:21:06 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Leaning Right
If the American people knew just how much ChiCom money influences Congress, there’d be a revolution tomorrow.

Our government has become almost 100% corrupt and almost 100% worthless and nobody seems to care. I think having a divided country is what they sought all along because it protects them.

18 posted on 08/01/2022 7:23:22 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Leaning Right

Agree and history will repeat itself.


19 posted on 08/01/2022 8:07:00 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: Leaning Right

Do I need to look at the demographics of those accepting this “Challenge”?


20 posted on 08/01/2022 5:20:27 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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