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Teslas Can Be Stolen by Hijacking WiFi at Charging Stations, Researchers Find (futurism.com)

submitted 5 months ago by catculation to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

I believe this method came out weeks ago and I had thought I'd read tesla already took care of it, but may be wrong. You still have to hang out long enough to get someone who actually wants wifi, but doesn't want to stay at their car where the wifi is at, and then will also fall for a phishing attack and put in their verification code sent to their phone into the fake site.

All to swipe a car that's going to be noticed as being stolen very quickly, and when all teslas come standard with GPS location tracking.

So what's the point of stealing a car after possible hours and hours of waiting for a mark and then taking it while the owner can report it and it's location the entire time.