[ale] Hackers can track your car!

[Jim Kinney]

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


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On Fri, Feb 27, 2026, 5:36 PM Bob Toxen via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

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> 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
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