Car theft in Canada in general, Toronto specifically, is completely out of control. It’s to the point where everyone I know either has had a car stolen, or knows someone who has had a car stolen. And the thing is, while there are calls for the police to do more, it’s really the car companies who need to do more.
Now I am pretty sure that I know what the car companies will say. They comply with laws requiring the use of engine immobilizers within their products since 2007. That’s nice. But given the fact that in 2023, a car in Toronto was stolen every 40 minutes on average, they’re clearly not working. What is clear is that key reprogramming, CANBUS attacks, relay attacks and the like are more effective than engine immobilizers. If you’re not clear on what any of that means, this will help you get up to speed.
So you’d think that car companies would say that what they’re doing isn’t working. So they have to up their game. Well, the cynic in me says that they’re not going to do anything to improve things on this front because they have a financial incentive not to. As in if your car gets stolen, they get to sell you a new car. I hate saying that, but in pretty much any other industry, if you have a security issue that affects your customers, you fix it and you make things better for your customers. I don’t see that happening with the car industry. Thus what I would argue is that the Federal Government needs to force car companies to do the right thing. Which is to replace engine immobilizers with something more secure. Maybe it’s two factor authentication? Maybe it’s making it harder for the attacks that are out there to execute? Maybe it’s higher levels of encryption? Nothing when it comes to security is perfect. But if you do things that reduce the likelihood that something bad will happen to as close to zero as possible, you’re winning. Unfortunately that’s not the world we live in because at present, it seems that any bipedal primate with opposible thumbs can steal a car. And that’s totally on the car makers. Not the owners of the car, not the police, and not the government.
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Car Companies Are Not Doing Enough To Stop Car Theft
Car theft in Canada in general, Toronto specifically, is completely out of control. It’s to the point where everyone I know either has had a car stolen, or knows someone who has had a car stolen. And the thing is, while there are calls for the police to do more, it’s really the car companies who need to do more.
Now I am pretty sure that I know what the car companies will say. They comply with laws requiring the use of engine immobilizers within their products since 2007. That’s nice. But given the fact that in 2023, a car in Toronto was stolen every 40 minutes on average, they’re clearly not working. What is clear is that key reprogramming, CANBUS attacks, relay attacks and the like are more effective than engine immobilizers. If you’re not clear on what any of that means, this will help you get up to speed.
So you’d think that car companies would say that what they’re doing isn’t working. So they have to up their game. Well, the cynic in me says that they’re not going to do anything to improve things on this front because they have a financial incentive not to. As in if your car gets stolen, they get to sell you a new car. I hate saying that, but in pretty much any other industry, if you have a security issue that affects your customers, you fix it and you make things better for your customers. I don’t see that happening with the car industry. Thus what I would argue is that the Federal Government needs to force car companies to do the right thing. Which is to replace engine immobilizers with something more secure. Maybe it’s two factor authentication? Maybe it’s making it harder for the attacks that are out there to execute? Maybe it’s higher levels of encryption? Nothing when it comes to security is perfect. But if you do things that reduce the likelihood that something bad will happen to as close to zero as possible, you’re winning. Unfortunately that’s not the world we live in because at present, it seems that any bipedal primate with opposible thumbs can steal a car. And that’s totally on the car makers. Not the owners of the car, not the police, and not the government.
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