Even more consequential and terrifying is to check how quickly and easily you can rake or bump the lock on your home door (only attempt if you know that you're doing, so as to avoid damaging it). Tends to be far easier than accessing car. It may also run counter to expectations: The nicest (and second most expensive) place I have lived at had the worst locks.

Makes you reflect on how, most of the time we rely on a baseline trust placed in most of the people around us.

I bought myself an Autel key programmer and boy was it funny to add in my own keys arbitrarily with no authentication to my own car.

No wonder the ratbag kids these days are running around with them - they're only like $400 on Aliexpress and Temu. The world of "all keys lost" shenanigans is a wild one. There's cat-and-mouse games between Autel and automakers and users trying to "block" certain regions and users from leveraging the all-keys-lost features to try to cut down on auto theft, but where there's a will, there's a way, and Autel's just running a shitty Android app on an Android 8 tablet...

I miss my DSMs. I had a couple of 1st gens but always wanted a 2nd gen. When I looked at prices a few years ago I decided I'll never own one unless I have a large exit. I'm only interested in a GSX and prices have gone up way too much.

Nice car, but personally the 3000GT is the one for me :)

I do miss my Starion, but not the fines.

Those things are cool, wife had one when I met her (non turbo). It's a shame they stopped making them.

Daybreak blue (for defensive action) was for a long time a specific model selection, basically Sol 5.6. Later it became a toggle available for any 5.6 model. Last time I checked it wasn’t available for 6+.

Daybreak red for offensive action is a better trained model of Sol 5.6 for offensive action.

Vehicles with factory remote start still require the key to drive the car. None of the "remote start over the internet" vulnerabilities found to date allow anyone to drive the car.

I do wish my new car (Volvo EV) had a physical key for practical reasons (having a place to put it and thus remember to bring it with me is an underrated feature of car ignitions) but I don't think there is anything that fundamentally makes it impossible for CANBus attacks to work against cars with proper keys.

I highly doubt that modern car ignition locks are not also just sending a start signal via the CANBus. If they had a physical wire to trigger engine start it seems like that would make hotwiring the car easier, since I believe that is how older cars worked?

Proper clickbait titles are more like “You wouldn’t believe the car brand we were able to unlock!” And when you click through, the article tells you. What advanced form of clickbait is this where the authors doesn’t even disclose the most important part of the story? Why is he protecting the car company by redacting the brand through the entire article?

The whole post is so badly written and explained. At least it wasn't AI generated I guess

Manufacturer is not disclosed, but the car in video is RAV4. Lol