In the trucking industry, our telematics kept failing to the tuna can problem: A tuna can is the perfect size, shape, and material to cover a GPS antenna.
>It’s believed that hackers were able to breach the owners’ Tesla accounts and then use iPhone or Android apps to access and drive the cars away.
So, now a compromised password could cost you a Tesla? Seems like the stakes are too damn high! What happened to the good 'ol days when they would at least need to manufacture (or procure) a dealer key to drive your car away?
>So, now a compromised password could cost you a Tesla? Seems like the stakes are too damn high! What happened to the good 'ol days when they would at least need to manufacture (or procure) a dealer key to drive your car away?
Still more effort and more rare than a screwdriver and a knife/wireclippers. Not that modern cars can be easily hotwired - but the "good 'ol days" definitely had a lower bar for theft...
A password is incredibly weak security. For someone who is safe it may be strong but for the average person a little social engineering can acquire it without their knowledge.
Most modern cars cannot be stolen with a screwdriver and a pair of wireclippers in a reasonable time frame. A password entry on the other hand would be seconds and any bystander who did see it would not notice anything out of the ordinary.
> Still more effort and more rare than a screwdriver and a knife/wireclippers. Not that modern cars can be easily hotwired - but the "good 'ol days" definitely had a lower bar for theft...
Hot-wiring required physical accesss and breaking one car at a time, here one bug can effect all cars. Fat-tails?
Wouldn't there be some sort of system effectively making these stolen cars worthless for anything but spare parts? Like for instance, a stolen phone not being able to be reactivated at a carrier.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 26.0 ms ] threadSo, now a compromised password could cost you a Tesla? Seems like the stakes are too damn high! What happened to the good 'ol days when they would at least need to manufacture (or procure) a dealer key to drive your car away?
Still more effort and more rare than a screwdriver and a knife/wireclippers. Not that modern cars can be easily hotwired - but the "good 'ol days" definitely had a lower bar for theft...
Most modern cars cannot be stolen with a screwdriver and a pair of wireclippers in a reasonable time frame. A password entry on the other hand would be seconds and any bystander who did see it would not notice anything out of the ordinary.
Hot-wiring required physical accesss and breaking one car at a time, here one bug can effect all cars. Fat-tails?