• cally [he/they]@pawb.social
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    5 hours ago

    This is actually really helpful it makes your keys be wrapped in aluminum foil and that’s pretty helpful because it makes your keys be wrapped in aluminum foil

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      I was really skeptical about this, but after a few weeks I realized my keys were wrapped in aluminum foil and I actually started feeling safer

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      I was skeptical, but when i wrapped my own keyfob in aluminum foil, I discovered that not only was my keyfob wrapped in aluminum foil, but also there was a wrapping of foiled aluminum on my keyfob! Total success!

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          Potatoes are such a good idea because you wrap them in aluminum foil, cook em. And then the foil like qualities of the aluminum pass into the potato so I eat all the white stuff leaving potato foil, so one can actually take the aluminum foil I cooked the potato in, make it into a ball, place it inside the potato foil, and then wrap the whole thing in aluminum foil making an aluminum foil potato wrapped in potato foil wrapped in aluminum foil!

          Now you know what to make cherished loved ones for presents

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    3 hours ago

    “Steamed Key Fob” is one of my favorite gourmet meals. 5 stars, would eat again!

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    At least this one is fake. Not like the Flock Camera one where it turned out that they actually each have about 2.4lbs of copper and 0.28oz of gold.

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      But does it work with the foil? We found lots of metal containers didn’t block the signal. Hell even a pouch advertised to do it still worked.

      Thick metal containers with over lapping lids worked best.

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    Isn’t there a thing where car thiefs use an RF booster to make newer cars think the keyfob is right next to the receiver?

    Personally, I’d want an antenna on/off switch that gets activated by shoving it in the keyfob hole. Seems reasonably secure.

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      Yes, but you can usually just disable the proximity unlock feature on the car itself if you are worried about it

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        Nono, you see that would actually be user serviceable and convenient for the consumer!! You’re fired Smith. Johnson, tell me again about your llm powered brain mounted key fob with ad injection and $20 a month subscription? I love it! You’re promoted!!

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        Heh, it’s on the right track. But as an IT guy and tech nerd, I’d want to go for something like this. I’ve even set mine up for computer logins back when I had an Active Directory test environment for learning.

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      They pretty much already do this. Most modern fobs turn themselves off if they’ve not moved recently, which protects against relay style attacks.

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      Maybe just use an rfid coil in the ignition and turn a key to start like immobilizers have done for like 20-30 years at this point.

      Better yet use physical contacts in the key and use an on key cryptographic controller to do public key authentication.

      That way key material never leaves the key itself after being manufactured making it basically impossible to steal the car without the key.

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        That also solves the problem of the dealership needing to continue charging hundreds of dollars to replace a lost key.

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          The solution to that is open source tooling to download backup and re-upload your private key material to a set of keys.

          Doesn’t solve the issue of the key cut though.

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    The other day I saw a guy who had a little tin foil “folder” for his credit card. I guess he was trying to block criminals from getting his card number?

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      RFID for contactless payments.

      You can just hold your NFC phone with a payment app to someones butt & give yourself a few monies.

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        Yeah, in a serious country, it’s easy to identify the criminal and send them to jail. So this tends to happen in short and localized bursts where people don’t steal a lot.

        But it does exist.