alt Hacker NewsJust go wrench on your own car, like OP. You'll be amazed at all the funky ways you can gain access without a key. Not really secure, but difficult enough to prevent the casual shenanigans. This stuff predates the automotive IoT crisis too.
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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...
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.