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Car was stolen from a driveway in Canada. We found it in West Africa
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- netsharc 3y agoSo, why no focus on the Port of Montreal? Seems to me like why the cars are disappearing from Canada is because that port is a very easy point of exit for the stolen goods. There's probably a big organized crime syndicate bribing/controlling the authorities there. Edit: then again, it's the major port of Eastern Canada, so, I suppose, where else would it go through?
- PM_me_your_math 3y agoBecause of corruption at the port; from the dock worker to the super, to the politicians and everyone in between. Everyone gets a little slice.
- cududa 3y agoI remember a couple years ago seeing some writeup on hacking cars via CAN Bus by pulling out a headlight/ taillight, and a chorus of people here saying how it's not a feasible way to steal a car because you'd get noticed, it takes too long, blah blah blah. According to this article, that's exactly what they're doing
- ryan69howard 3y agoYou were right. We were wrong. If we could only roll back time…
- qbrass 3y agoIn the only cited instance in the article, the car wasn't stolen in the attempt because the criminals got noticed, it took too long, blah blah blah.
- msarrel 3y agoWhen my friend's car was stolen in LA it was later found in the Philippines.
- hulitu 3y agoHow was your friend able to locate the car ?
- cmurf 3y agoI guess PKI not used between fob and car? Sounds to me there's less verification between fob and car, than contactless EMV card and reader. How is this possible? Is it an industry wide practice?
- mannerheim 3y agoOne technique apparently used is signal-boosting. PKI wouldn't fix this. You'd need to do one of three things: 1) Stop fobs from automatically sending out signals without user intervention (but people like convenience) 2) Put fobs in a Faraday cage 3) Add some sort of geolocation to fobs that will stop the car from starting if the key is too far away