Keyless Car Theft Explained - Protect Your Car from Keyfob Relay Attacks. (read description)

Modern vehicles with keyless entry and push-to-start technology are vulnerable to a type of attack called the keyfob relay attack. This attack can allow a thief to steal the car in under a minute. To protect your key fob, we recommend the Secure-a-key product from NavTV. You can find it at https://navtv.com/products/category/3.... (No affiliation.)

We have found that signal blocking "Faraday bags" create a false sense of security. In order to be effective, a signal blocking solution should be certified by an independent, third-party testing lab such as a Nationally Recognized Testing Lab (NRTL). If the signal blocking solution you are considering does not have this certification, it may provide a false sense of security.

We have been testing potential solutions to this attack and are working on a video to share our findings with you. For the moment, the Secure-a-key product from NavTV has proven effective.

Note: To date, every consumer "faraday" bag, pouch, box, etc. that we have tested, has proven unreliable; with the exception of two. One is made by a company that no longer serves the general public, and the other one that works, and works well to protect your credit cards is the RidgeWallet another organization to which we have no Affiliation.


11/19/23 NOTICE:

I keep getting nasty BS from people who don't understand how the modern automobile works. So let's stop that nonsense right now.

Pay attention fellas, before you comment. (Some of you have been really toxic.)

If the computer can override your input no matter the physical arrangement, it is run by the computer. Just cause the default state is open allowing your input to impact the vehicle, doesn't mean a thing. If the computer can change that default state and override your input no matter what you do, you have the illusion of control... Period. Ultimately, IT'S ALL RUN BY COMPUTER; a computer with internet access. As I said when I recorded this, it's true to this day, and it is only getting worse.

FOR EXAMPLE:    • Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on a Hig...  

2 seconds into the above linked video the BRAKES FAIL on a 2014 because the COMPUTER TOLD THEM TO... They also show they can steer the car remotely, ignore accelerator input from the driver, disable the brakes, etc, etc, etc.

Now take all the new systems the computer controls in todays cars, and guess what. Default state is open, but the computer can override your input on every system in the car. As I said then, and I will say again, "it's all run by computer." You have the illusion of control, but the computer makes all the calls.

If the computer doesn't want you to stop, guess what fellas? You're not going to.

Thus endith the lesson.



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