To prevent the possibility of being attacked in your home, leave your fobs at your front door, because they’re breaking into your home to steal your car. They don’t want anything else.

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    My father is a cop. We talked about car thefts because it was in the news and he told me they had some federal police come in and give them a lesson on how these car theft rings work. He said nobody at the local station understood it. It was far too technical and convoluted. He said all he knows for sure is that they work in groups and one guy has a laptop. Also, the people who touch the cars are mules who know little to nothing about the group they work for and often get paid in crypto currency. Then he told me nobody at the station knows how crypto currency works.

    Police are way behind on crimes involving any sort of technology.

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      8 months ago

      Sounds like the problem is that we keep hiring dumbasses to be cops, they can’t even understand a seminar about their jobs

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        I think it’s the other way round, only dumbasses want the job. The same thing happens with middle management and politicians, anyone smart enough to do the job well is smart enough not to take it.

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      8 months ago

      Sounds like anything more complicated than “stop or I’ll shoot” is beyond most of them.

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      8 months ago

      Our car got stolen last year, the Hamilton police said “call your insurance company.”

      It took the guy 5 min from opening the door to driving away and as far as I know the only technical part is that they use some hardware to relay the key fob signals. They relay the keyless/proximity unlock signal to get in, then they pair a new fob to the car using the manufactures method. Normally that requires all other paired fobs to be present at the same time BUT they are relaying those signals so the “security” there is bypassed.

      The icing on the cake is that the cops didn’t even bother to cruise by the next night as the neighbour’s car got stolen as well.