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The problem with security by obscurity is that as soon as it's widely used, the crooks learn to bypass it. It's literally a relay in the starter wire, all you g
by myself248 3y ago
The problem with security by obscurity is that as soon as it's widely used, the crooks learn to bypass it. It's literally a relay in the starter wire, all you gotta do is hotwire the starter and you're back to the status quo.
A whole lot of people have these on their own cars, any DIYer can do it in an hour or two. I may or may not have one on mine. But the "security" comes from there being no standard location for any of the components.
- drdaeman 3y agoLooking at the prototype photo, it seems trivial to open the hood and remove the whole thing in a minute or so. Unless the plan is to have it somewhere way down there, and not simply sitting on top of the positive terminal. The video says "alarms sound the when authenticator is removed", but that's a gimmick. They should be entirely disconnecting the whole negative terminal (duh), not just the wire to the device, leaving the whole car without power until the positive terminal is freed. And if anyone bothers to ask what the thief is doing, they have a 100% plausible reply "got a parasitic drain, so I've put a cheap relay and now this crap is failing on me".