[Boomer]

I see the TOTV drawing and quartering of the owner has begun.

BUT --

Do you know for sure the car was left unlocked?

Did the owner think the car was locked?

I have not read the news article, but when I saw this topic come up, I decided to revisit and share a post of mine from last fall. (I still do not like my keyless entry. And if you think this is not a real concern, please give it a Google. By the way, although it is a little bit of a hassle, there are ways to protect your signal.)

I hope you will read this and consider the possibility and if you have a car with a keyless entry, be aware. TV would be easy pickins' for criminals who can easily and cheaply get this device. Sometimes the car itself is stolen.

Somebody at The Daily Sun needs to do a little homework and write an article on this topic to make people in TV more aware of this all-too-easy entry -- no breaking necessary.


Here is my old post:

Does anybody know how to prevent keyless entry remote hacking?


Today, someone attempted to hack our Accord’s Keyless Entry. (We are not back in TV yet so it did not happen there.)

Anyway, we were getting out of the car in a restaurant parking lot when Mr. Boomer could not lock the car. The remote was in his pocket. He had manually pushed the driver’s side lock, which is what we usually do. When it would not lock, he pushed down all 4 locks which seemed to work, but we never found out for sure because........

This all took place in less than a minute, at which point, Mr. Boomer said, “Somebody is messing with us.” And so we immediately got back in the car and left.

That was when Mr. B explained to me what was going on. I had no idea that such a possibility existed. Turns out, there are devices available cheap that make it possible for bad guys to get into your car without breaking in.

I have never liked my keyless entry, even though I finally got used to NOT checking the door handle to see if the car was locked.

Had a thief been successful in getting into our car, a couple of Bed, Bath and Beyond coupons and my raincoat would have been it, but still — this is creepy.

Does anybody out there in TOTVland know of a way to prevent a keyless entry from being hacked?