A New Technique Used By Thieves
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A New Technique Used By Thieves
I don't know if this is for real, as it is the first time I heard of it, but it could be worth a mention.
A friend forwarded an email to me which explained that when you use your key fob transmitter to lock your vehicle doors, there is a digital code that can be detected. That seems more than logical.
The email also explained that there are portable devices that can store the code and program that code into another transmitter. This will allow anyone possessing that transmitter to gain entrance to a vehicle that they do not own.
The new fad among thieves is to stalk potential victims in mall parking lots and interstate highway rest areas and attempt to detect vehicle lock codes when the owner uses their remote fob to lock up when they leave their vehicle to attend to other business. Many folks return to their vehicles and find that the contents are gone and no signs of a forcible entry.
The suggestion in the email is that you can thwart a potential threat by using the door lock buttons inside the vehicle, instead of the key fob transmitter, when you lock your vehicle in large parking lots such as malls and highway rest stops, when thieves know that you will be away from your vehicle for an extended period of time.
Worth considering, maybe?
A friend forwarded an email to me which explained that when you use your key fob transmitter to lock your vehicle doors, there is a digital code that can be detected. That seems more than logical.
The email also explained that there are portable devices that can store the code and program that code into another transmitter. This will allow anyone possessing that transmitter to gain entrance to a vehicle that they do not own.
The new fad among thieves is to stalk potential victims in mall parking lots and interstate highway rest areas and attempt to detect vehicle lock codes when the owner uses their remote fob to lock up when they leave their vehicle to attend to other business. Many folks return to their vehicles and find that the contents are gone and no signs of a forcible entry.
The suggestion in the email is that you can thwart a potential threat by using the door lock buttons inside the vehicle, instead of the key fob transmitter, when you lock your vehicle in large parking lots such as malls and highway rest stops, when thieves know that you will be away from your vehicle for an extended period of time.
Worth considering, maybe?
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This doesn't matter. There aren't thousands of different key fob signals-there are only so many, and they're recycled. All you would need to do is transmit all at once or in a series and eventually, your car will unlock for the thief.
This is what insurance is for.
This is what insurance is for.
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From: Luskville, QC, Canada
And this is no longer true: http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/lockcode.asp
Most manufacturers now use rolling codes; i.e. the code is changed everytime and it's "nearly impossible" to guess what the next valid code will be. So capturing a transmission is useless.
That used to be a real problem though.
Yves
Most manufacturers now use rolling codes; i.e. the code is changed everytime and it's "nearly impossible" to guess what the next valid code will be. So capturing a transmission is useless.
That used to be a real problem though.
Yves
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And this is no longer true: http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/lockcode.asp
Most manufacturers now use rolling codes; i.e. the code is changed everytime and it's "nearly impossible" to guess what the next valid code will be. So capturing a transmission is useless.
That used to be a real problem though.
Yves
Most manufacturers now use rolling codes; i.e. the code is changed everytime and it's "nearly impossible" to guess what the next valid code will be. So capturing a transmission is useless.
That used to be a real problem though.
Yves
