Belgian researchers can steal a Tesla Model S in seconds

[Hoonigan]

ftfy

Nah, I wouldn't call it a waste of money, because some people might have a genuine use for keyless entry, but I'd much rather spend that £300 on something else.

[MajorZod]

Ah-hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!

At this rate we'll never get electric cars....

Pretty certain people have been doing this to keyless entry cars for years...

[Smudger]

This —^

I have keyless entry and keyless start and you know what it’s lead to? A 5 minute search of the car to work out what I did with my keys when I got in the car. It’s a solution looking for a problem IMO.

Keep the key in your pocket? I thought the point was that you don't need to go searching for your key when you've got a handful of shopping bags and that?

That said, I'm not convinced, I laughed at my missus when she wrapped her key in foil to prevent this, but it seems to be a lot of hassle to protect against theft. I might have to do a test to find out the distance it works from, then make sure we keep the key further than that from the front of the house...

FYI - we didn't pay for keyless, it was standard equipment on the car we got.

[Hoonigan]

FYI - we didn't pay for keyless, it was standard equipment on the car we got.

My girlfriend's old car, a Kia Sportage, came with keyless entry as standard. I'm not a big fan of manufacturers pushing it on people, for this exact reason. Unless pin codes are added in the vehicle, or something similar, then there's always a risk of someone scanning your key and driving away in your car.

[Ttaskmaster]

Sorry, I fail how this how anything to do with electric cars in general?

It's just one more reason to hate them, since so many of them seem to think it's a selling point and endeavour to force it upon us.

There are always some luddites who will grab anything to resist the inevitable!

Oh, so it's inevitable and we should just accept it instead of fighting for better options?
Great. Nvidia will be delighted to hear that you'll be wasting so much money on a Quad-SLI of their inevitable next rip-off GPU!

Being inevitable doesn't mean it's any good.

Pretty certain people have been doing this to keyless entry cars for years...

Pretty sure that's also why I've never gotten a keyless car...

[TheAnimus]

So they can steal the car, they just need a copy of the key? Uh.... okay. That's... kinda how locks are meant to work, key fits, lock opens. How is this newsworthy? Aside from dogpiling onto Tesla seems to have become a passtime for the media.

They shouldn't be possible to clone. That's the idea of a rotating key.

If you'd read the article, it was only 40bit length, so a rainbow could be produced. No one should have made a 40bit keylength in 2000, let alone 2017.

every person with keylass entry in the world should always ensure they don't leave their keys near the public facing part of their house.
The amount of scanners available to locate the keyless signalfrom your house, and then transmit it / replicate it to the car on the drive is unending.

Tesla is just the most recent to fall over with it.

No this is different, this is cloning, those scanners just relay the data, this is much worse.

[Strawb77]

Trig;304]Do people not follow "They stole my wheels" on Facebook, theres videos weekly of people walking up to the front of a house with a signal booster and then someone else by the car, Ford are a particular favorite for this..

used to be able to open and start my brother`s ford (don`t remember model) with a lollipop stick, not that you`d want to nick the poc.