re: Steal a Tesla Model S with raspberry pi

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Was it really that easy? I mean it took
some smart dudes 9 months to figure it out.

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Yes. If the entire encryption scheme for your entire fleet of cars took only 9 months to brute force and render completely useless, that's easy.

It doesn't take 9 months to defeat the encryption for each car. The entire SCHEME was broken in 9 months. It takes less than two seconds to get into a car if you can hear the owner press his keyfob twice and you have access to the massive datasets generated by the brute force attack. Even if the computed tables are kept by the researchers, once they publish their method, those tables are going to be replicated in WAY sooner than 9 months by people all over the globe. Once those tables hit the wild (if they haven't already), every 15 year old car thief is going to have access to every existing Tesla on the planet.

That said, many other car manufacturers use 96 bit encryption, which is unfathomably more secure than 40 bit. If 40 bit can be brute forced in 9 months, 41 bit would be expected to take 18 months and 42 bit 36 months, and so on and so forth. Even with the 96 bit encryption, fobs have been defeated by some more sophisticated attacks, but not because they used laughably weak encryption that can be brute forced.

As a model S owner, this is a bit scary.

However, if someone does steal the car that would be pretty stupid. I have real-time GPS on the car and it is amazingly fricking accurate. It will literally show you which parking spot you are in, direction the car is facing, etc. Not only that, but just by pushing one button on the app, I can kill the car no matter where it is.

Too bad it won't let me remote set the auto-pilot to a police station.

Stop smoking blunts on Joe Rogan and fix this shite --- Musk.

I rarely post here but read daily and you fricking suck around here. It seems like you have a miserable life. I hope things get better for you.