Keyless Entry May NOT Be Your Friend...

If you've purchased a new car recently, it is likely that you have a keyless entry system that allows you to keep a key somewhere on your person while you simply hit the Start button. Guess what?

It's not as safe as it seems.

According to reports, it seems that it is quite simple to break into a car with a keyless system. Long story short, the experiment tested 10 models over eight manufacturers and all of the vehicles were started and driven away. Not cool.

Although I'd love to explain the exact details behind this, I am a finance/car guy. With that said, I suggest clicking the "Read Article" link down below or going straight to our link for the MIT Technology Review site.

Professor Srdjan Capkun of ETH Zurich found himself perched on the fence between these two groups when he recently purchased a vehicle with a keyless entry system, so he did what any good researcher would: he tried to bypass its security measures...

[Source: Engadget VIA MIT Technology Review]

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shabaru - 1/17/2011 12:40:52 AM

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what are you going to do if you bought a BMW?.... didn't they recently just get rid of all the old fashion turning method and put the keyless standard?

Agent00R - 1/17/2011 12:47:49 AM

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@shabaru

I guess it'd be a good time to invest in The Club?

LexSucks - 1/17/2011 5:57:53 PM

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"The Club" that connects to the steering can be defeated with a hacksaw or dremmel tool in under 30 seconds. All you have to do is saw through the steering wheel. Club comes off through slit. I had a friend who had his car stolen, he got it back six months later with tape covering the area on the steering wheel where they cut it. Vehicle was also re-registered.

I've yet to read or hear of this getting defeated. Doesn't connect to steering wheel, it connects to the brake pedal.
http://www.amazon.com/Club-Brake-Vehicle-Anti-Theft-Device/dp/B000L9T7AY

Yonder7 - 1/17/2011 9:26:44 AM

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dumpsty - 1/17/2011 9:02:48 PM

+1 Boost

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Agent00R - 1/17/2011 11:08:18 PM

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@dump

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tango - 1/17/2011 11:09:45 AM

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This doesn't concern me at all. The ease with which thieves move away with cars with regular keys doesn't make me afraid that they can make off with a car with keyless entry. Fact is if somebody wants your car they WILL take it. And they will kill your high-tech-key-having-so-they-can't-break-in-my-car ass to do it if you stand in their way. And the Club?!? Come on now 009, every thief knows how to defeat The Club without even touching it.

jeffy210 - 1/17/2011 11:34:08 AM

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I think the bigger issue is one of the last lines of the article:

a "nasty aspect of high-tech car theft" is that "it doesn't leave any sign of forced entry," so if a thief did use this method to steal a car, he says, it might be hard for police and insurance companies to get sufficient evidence of what happened.

LexSucks - 1/17/2011 5:51:03 PM

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"it might be hard for police and insurance companies to get sufficient evidence of what happened."

- That's thier problem.

theman440 - 1/18/2011 12:08:55 AM

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duh...