Reply to post: Re: The criminals are already using this weakness

Connected car in the second-hand lot? Don't buy it if you're not hack-savvy

russell 6

Re: The criminals are already using this weakness

I don't know the in's and out's or rolling codes in rolling garage doors. As you said, most doors use rolling codes, which means not all. And the codes are only as strong as the firmware which is generating them. Could the crims reverse engineer the firmaware and find some sort of master code which is never part of the rolling code? I don't know. I just know that most stuff is hackable these days, in fact everything is hackable, given enough time and resources. No I'm not a techie, I'm just interested in tech, which is why I come to Reg

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