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kotaKat • today at 12:55 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

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...