Well property crime (defined as theft of property valued under $950) is still a crime in CA with a punishment and everything. Whether or not the person is going to get caught and charged is a different issue.
In a nutshell: keyless entry or start of the jeep work as follow:
Thanks for this. The keys are definitely not in range of the keyless entry or start function. The lock/unlock is another story though.
Go the dealer and get the update completed. No way to tell unless you go to the dealer. Maybe have the dealer wipe out all the keys and re-program yours before completing the update in the unlikely chance they programmed a key before running off.
I want to mention that these are insanely hard to pull off if your house has multiple key fobiks. It's already difficult to capture the signal, and if there's multiple keys (especially identical jeep fobiks,) it's near impossible to single one out and relay it without a key button being actively pressed.I think if they were skimming the key with a relay your Jeep would already be gone.
Thankfully it seems like they were just checking for unlocked doors and easy targets. Still sucks though. My Jeep has been broken into and they took something like a screwdriver and jammed it into the lock which broke it and then opened the door. Then did the same thing to the lock inside on the glove box. I never bothered replacing the glove box but I did replace the door lock and bought a spare lock for when it happens again.
If only there was some other step to prevent stuff like this...I think if they were skimming the key with a relay your Jeep would already be gone.
Thankfully it seems like they were just checking for unlocked doors and easy targets. Still sucks though. My Jeep has been broken into and they took something like a screwdriver and jammed it into the lock which broke it and then opened the door. Then did the same thing to the lock inside on the glove box. I never bothered replacing the glove box but I did replace the door lock and bought a spare lock for when it happens again.
Replay attack is probably not not a thing as the key own the crypto private key and will encryption what ever the jeep send, jeep should send different thing on each button press, probably the time. once the key encrypt the content and send it back the jeep who own the public key will decrypt the content of the message and will see if it fit the original message that was send.
First thing I did when taking ownership of my JL. I still keep the faraday pouch as nothing stop peoples to force the door open and do the same thing for the start sequence.
Just add a physical button you need to press when the keyfob receive a request to authorize the request to proceed. So they can try to spam the keyless entry button all they want if you at the other end do not push the OK button on the fob nothing is happening. But this will be a really stupid system and should have just stay with the normal remote unlock / start feature....
I don't know if this is something you might be interested in. I really like it. I've been meaning to get one I just haven't yet. It's plug & play.
The Jeep Fob for the JL is super annoying and feels like carrying a huge brick. I much prefer the old JK key with the Fob in the handle, or my old Tacoma’s separate set up. I would pay extra to not have push button start, but it’s now on every new US vehicle. It seems like progress for progress‘ sake, rather than innovation. And it is overall less secure than a redundant physical/digital system.
I see what this is doing and I feel like this is bringing up memories from the 90's. Effective but works.
Other guess it a vin look up to see if it is the model they need to they have a way to get a mirror key. I’d get a hood lock and I would keep the Subaru blocking the jeep in place
