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[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: May 8, 2006 11:26:55 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
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Subject: Re: [IP] Inaccurate reporting in "Gone in 60 seconds"

Dave,

It goes deeper than what Jonathan reported.  keyless remotes and  
immobilizers are not RFID devices at all.  They are broadcast  
devices, not passive.  They dont sit there waiting  to be 'read'.  I  
wonder at the rest of the article, but given what we already know to  
be inaccurate it seems pointless to check further


Dan

On 5/7/06, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:

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From: Jonathan B Spira <jspira () basex com >
Date: May 6, 2006 10:06:32 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Inaccurate reporting in "Gone in 60 seconds"


Dave

Fact checking certainly was out to lunch on this.

The article conflates a bunch of facts and errors so it is hard to
assess how real the danger is.

For starters, BMW doesn't make an S5 - Beckham had two X5s stolen
from him.  That would normally be a minor detail except for the fact
that the X5 doesn't come with Comfort Access (n.b. BMW's new 3er,
5er, 6er, and 7er all have the Comfort Access keyless system) - even
though the story positions the Beckham thefts as if they were due to
Comfort Access.

I saw a similar article  on leftlanenews.com days ago - also citing
the X5 thefts as if they were due to Comfort Access - so it sounds as
if this is just going to make the rounds despite faulty reporting.

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Cordiali saluti/Saludos/Vänliga hälsningar

/s/ Jonathan
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From: Glenn Tenney CISSM CISM <gt_IP060107 () think org>
Date: May 6, 2006 7:14:23 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber < dave () farber net>
Subject: Gone in 60 seconds--the high-tech version

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http://news.com.com/Gone+in+60+seconds-the+high-tech+version/
2100-7349_3-6069287.html

Gone in 60 seconds--the high-tech version

By Robert Vamosi
Story last modified Sat May 06 06:00:03 PDT 2006
<SNIP>
Real-world examples
Meet Radko Soucek, a 32-year-old car thief from the Czech Republic. He's
alleged to have stolen several expensive cars in and around Prague using
a laptop and a reader. Soucek is not new to auto theft--he has been
stealing cars since he was 11 years old. But he recently turned
high-tech when he realized how easily it could be done.

Ironically, what led to his downfall was his own laptop, which held
evidence of all his past encryption attempts. With a database of
successful encryption strings already stored on his hard drive, he had
the ability to crack cars he'd never seen before in a relatively short
amount of time.

And Soucek isn't an isolated example. Recently, soccer player David
Beckham had not one, but two, antitheft-engineered BMW S5 SUVs stolen.
The most recent theft occurred in Madrid, Spain. Police believe an auto
theft gang using software instead of hardware pinched both of Beckham's
BMWs.
<SNIP>


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