Re: Hackers can track your car!
Jeff Lightner via Ale <[email protected]>
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…by which point you’d need to buy new tires that can be tracked. I’m annoyed that my 2017 gives me low tire pressure alerts but makes me figure out which one is low. Newer vehicles display which tire it is. From: Ale <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jim Kinney via Ale Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2026 8:59 AM To: Bob Toxen <transam-z5aK1Qzqv/r5/[email protected]>; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <[email protected]> Cc: Jim Kinney <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ale] Hackers can track your car! The good news is they can only track for about 5 years. Then the batteries run down. -- James P. Kinney III Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog. - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/ On Fri, Feb 27, 2026, 5:36 PM Bob Toxen via Ale <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Read the TechNews Online at: http://technews.acm.org (c) 2026 Smithbucklin This service may be reproduced for internal distribution. ACM TechNews; Friday, February 27, 2026 Car's Tire Pressure System Poses Hacking Threat CNET (02/25/26) Aaron Pruner Cars made after 2008, which under the U.S. TREAD Act of 2000 must be equipped with tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS) for road safety, may expose drivers to covert tracking, warn researchers from Spain's IMDEA Networks Institute. The researchers collected millions of wireless signals from thousands of vehicles and found that TPMS sensors broadcast unencrypted unique identifiers that can be picked up from more than 50m away using inexpensive radio receivers. https://maestro.acm.org/trk/click?ref=z16l2snue3_2-31e87_0x246fd3x021858 _______________________________________________ Ale mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo _______________________________________________ Ale mailing list [email protected] https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo