<story><title>Hacking Kia: Remotely controlling cars with just a license plate</title><url>https://samcurry.net/hacking-kia</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This won&amp;#x27;t have nearly the same impact, but when you&amp;#x27;re considering how vulnerabilities like this might influence your future purchasing decisions, remember that Kia&amp;#x27;s decision to omit interlocks from their US vehicles (but not Canadian ones!) led to a nationwide epidemic of Kia thefts so large it fed a crime wave, something a number of US cities are suing Kia over. If you&amp;#x27;ve read about carjacking waves in places like Milwaukee and Chicago: that was largely driven by a decision Kia made, which resulted in the nationwide deployment of a giant fleet of &amp;quot;burner&amp;quot; cars that could be stolen with nothing but a bent USB cable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bnralt</author><text>&amp;gt;  it fed a crime wave, something a number of US cities are suing Kia over&lt;p&gt;A large part of the crime wave stems from the policies these cities implemented. Many times from the same leaders who are suing Kia now.&lt;p&gt;For instance, a friend got their car stolen in D.C. After they caught the guy, they let him go with no consequences, because they said he was under 25 and it was the first time they caught him. D.C. recently put a convicted murderer on the sentencing commission who believes that this kind of &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s not really their fault if they&amp;#x27;re under 25&amp;quot; thinking should be extended to murders as well.&lt;p&gt;Local politicians even told us there wasn&amp;#x27;t a crime wave, and that it was just a fake narrative. Then when that stopped working, they started pointing fingers at everyone else they could.</text></comment>
<story><title>Hacking Kia: Remotely controlling cars with just a license plate</title><url>https://samcurry.net/hacking-kia</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tptacek</author><text>This won&amp;#x27;t have nearly the same impact, but when you&amp;#x27;re considering how vulnerabilities like this might influence your future purchasing decisions, remember that Kia&amp;#x27;s decision to omit interlocks from their US vehicles (but not Canadian ones!) led to a nationwide epidemic of Kia thefts so large it fed a crime wave, something a number of US cities are suing Kia over. If you&amp;#x27;ve read about carjacking waves in places like Milwaukee and Chicago: that was largely driven by a decision Kia made, which resulted in the nationwide deployment of a giant fleet of &amp;quot;burner&amp;quot; cars that could be stolen with nothing but a bent USB cable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adolph</author><text>&amp;gt; If you&amp;#x27;ve read about carjacking waves in places like Milwaukee and Chicago: that was largely driven by a decision Kia made, which resulted in the nationwide deployment of a giant fleet of &amp;quot;burner&amp;quot; cars that could be stolen with nothing but a bent USB cable.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;A nationwide epidemic of Kia thefts&amp;quot; seems to be a natural consequence of decreased security. However, that carjacking in Milwaukee and Chicago specifically would follow from a nationwide omission of interlocks is not obvious as the vehicles are easily stolen without the need for personal confrontation. What is the connection of Kia interlocks to carjacking in Milwaukee and Chicago?</text></comment>