Hackers Can Clone Millions of Toyota, Hyundai, and Kia Keys

Ceo's BMW X5 was stolen last year.He watched the CCTV later on.The guy came to the car with a laptop and drove away after a minute or so. Police found the car dumped somewhere on a road,as the car ran out of fuel and apparently it had some security feature that prevented the thieves from refiling it.

Latest BMW, Audi, VW and Ford (or at least some models from these manufacturers) key fobs stop transmitting after X amount of time (based on motion).

I disagree, when you’ve got 4 kids and both arms full of groceries, when the doors open automatically or even unlock on their own it’s a godsend. I’d even say it’s probably saved some lives as the kids race to get in and out of the parking lot instead of waiting on me to shuffle around for the keys, dropping bags in the process, and then chasing each other around in blind traffic.

The essential problem is that static credentials are transmitted and can be copied. If they used a randomly generated code to unlock the cars (needs to be generated offline) then that would solve this issue.

There are plenty of offline hardware based solutions already on the market especially for unlocking computers with MFA. It needs to be offline generation for computers for NIST DFARS 800-171 compliance.

One related and another unrelated though...

First: Auto manufacturers ought to get together and agree on one common key + entry system standard. It can be a combination of physical key and remote key if necessary.

The problem: If you have multiple vehicles (and many families do) you end-up with a keychain full of horrendously large and unnecessarily inconvenient keys, key-fobs, whatever. Some manufacturers seem intent on making the larges and most inconvenient boxes they can possibly imagine. This is entirely unnecessary. In this day and age one ought to be able to have a universal programmable entry system that gets programmed for your vehicles and that's that. One device to rule them all.

Second: Auto manufacturers ought to get together and agree on placing the fuel tank port on the same side.

The problem: Today you have cars and trucks with fuel tank refill ports on the left and the right. It can be an absolute nightmare to go to a gas station where most of the cars have ports on the left and you show-up with one on the right. This is one of the reasons for which I hated driving our BMW. Going to the gas station was always a game of chicken with cars entering in the other direction.