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More surprising that the car has some call home feature that the owner doesn't seem to know about.
What I didn't know is that it would dial home if the connection was lost. Even the person I spoke to at the dealer wasn't aware of this.
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Also known as crying wolf. Don't you have insurance for theft? Kind mandatory in Amsterdam.
Pushing the problem to insure is blaming the victims, making the pay for crime.
Also, in Amsterdam, don't get a fancy bike.
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You sound frustrated, like you think it’s a bad thing that the police has time to respond to these types of incidents. When you’re not in one of the big cities, it is in fact common that police has time for this type of stuff (I live in Zeist myself and could see this type of thing happening here). I think this is rather a signal that the police in Amsterdam is underfunded, and/or the types of crimes they deal with a…
> the types of crimes they deal with are much more severe. Not just that, because of tourists misbehaving everywhere, there are also just way more crimes/disturbances than in normal city/town.
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Except that CPU manufacturers DO like that, and will give out special unlocked versions of their CPUs and even sponsor overclockers, to see what people can do with their hardware. This also happens with car manufacturers, in racing and such. Tuners are more under the radar so they don't like that, as well as the warranty claims that were mentioned.
no, there is no software that i know of where you can as a consumer make your i3 an i5 with just a software unlock, that you can get for like 10 eur. the difference on the base model mercedes c class between getting a less powerful engine and the one that is one level up is like 3.5-4k eur. that is a lot of money. if i could unlock the bigger engine with just 400 eur i would buy the base model. manufacturers don't wa…
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> I was a bit worried that the box does not shield the signal enough. They make "Faraday Bags" exactly for this purpose.
I needed a quick fix that everyone in our house would be adopting quite quickly, and it should also fit into the style my wife used to decorate the entrance area. So the bowl where our keys were usually collected was replaced by a metal box with a lid. However, in the long run I won't bet on workarounds to prevent the signal to be repeated, I will rather use one of those steering wheel locks that's brightly visible f…
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they also dont like tuners because cars engines are often made the same for multiple "trims" so the car with 110 and 160 hp have the same engine but different "map" in the ecu. and only with ecu reflash you can get more power that would cost you x amount of money. imagine a CPU where 6 and 8 core variants are the same but the 6 core is locked in bios and you can unlock it with some tuning software, its like that. and…
> imagine a CPU where 6 and 8 core variants are the same but the 6 core is locked in bios and you can unlock it with some tuning software, its like that. But isn't this already the case (except locking might be in CPU firmware)? AFAIR this is the case with GPUs.
[1] https://www.techpowerup.com/articles/overclocking/vidcard/15...
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haha! Yeah, but by the time you're involving a flatbed in your thieving, I don't know if any car security is going to be much good :P
I like to think high tech cars can detect when they're being towed and will activate their tracking system and ping the emergency call center. Of course, all bets are off when it's loaded into an RF shielded truck. It could have an onboard camera to record the number plate of the truck, but that could be shielded. Long story short, you're probably better off parking it in a firmly locked / secured garage, and have a…
My GPS tracker does do this in my daily car, but it only sets it off if the rest of the alarm is triggered (i.e. if the door sensor registers it opening while the alarm is set).
With the race car, it generally gets locked up. Although if I'm out in the town or something with it someone could possibly take off with it if they short-circuit the relay, and use something to clamp on the steering column (when the wheel is detached). But honestly, if someone stole the car like that they'd probably be found a few hundred yards up the road wrapped around a tree and on fire, after hitting boost with no steering wheel.
The thieves would have been wiser to take something, anything to make the narrative of the original break in more believable. They didn't sell the narrative well enough, which left people curious.
Would it be possible, that the order of actions was actually different? The thief first pushed thin tools through the door gasketing and actually cut the wires from the outside. Not sure how well and how successfully, but i actually presume that this wasn't as good cut as they tried to achieve. Then, they tried to break the window and continue with the theft, but the system reported them too fast anyways...?