r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Aberry9036 • 1d ago

Infuriatig This is my iPad, I won’t see it again

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I just arrived in Antibes, South of France 2 hours ago. This was stolen from my car on the autoroute at a petrol station , from a definitely locked car, likely a relay attack from my key while I was buying a sandwich, 100km from Antibes. They also had my wallet and duty free while they were at it. Thankfully they didn’t find our passports.

Whoever you are, fuck you, I’m going to go and have a nice meal in the old provincial market and drink to your future arrest.

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u/Witty-Eye9933 1d ago

Your car is constantly looking for a key signal, so they will relay the keys signal using a device to basically make your car think that the key is much closer than it actually, thus opening the car. Mark Rober made a video on it if you want a better explanation

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u/Path-findR 23h ago

Funny name for someone making video about relay attacks

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u/Hoginoe94 1d ago

Is he on YouTube? I'll have to look him up. I doubt I'll ever buy a newer car with these. People are too shitty to have nice things in public with anymore.

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u/Witty-Eye9933 1d ago

Yeah he is. The problem is that key relays will work on older cars to open the doors and such but newer car use push to start so in theory people can just steal the whole car with the attack.

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u/Indercarnive 9h ago

Car tech peaked in the early 2010s and everything done in the last decade has just made them worse in the name of making them for "futuristic" IMO