Guys the Renovation is Complete!

Painter finished today, new bathroom mirror glued to the wall, now all I have to do is mop the floors – easy I love cleaning – and tomorrow my furniture gets moved back in BOOM. Most excited for my couch, haven’t had a place to sit in over a month.

That also means back to regular programming here, cars and security. Thanks for your patience during all this, coming for car posts and finding renovation stuff is anti-climactic, I know.

I also pledge to buy a new phone omg this photo quality is garbage eh. iPhone 6 ahoy! And I’m not getting black for the first time ever, choosing gold.

Have a great weekend and TTY Monday!

xo Keri

 

 

The New Way to Steal a Car

A signal booster is the new shim.

The method exploits keyless entry, a once-luxury feature now found in entry-level cars.

I speak with Ted Harrington, co-founder of Independent Security Evaluators, a company that pioneered car hacking.

Very basically:

The Attack

Amplify the proximity radius, and now the key and car are talking when they shouldn’t be. Thief goes in, off he drives.

The Defence

Keep your key fob in a Faraday Cage (no signals can get in or go out)… do this by wrapping the fob in aluminum foil.

Read it online at Autonet.

Favourite line:

Pretty geeky, and probably beyond the average criminal, right? The trouble is that the online black market is massive and lucrative.

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Back to ‘Keri on Driving’ – Index

Blog tag = auto security

 

 

1 Year Ago Today I Bought a House

July 11, 2014 my offer was accepted, then I signed the official papers on Thursday the 24th (below.)

Picked up the keys the next day (3rd photo) and never went back downtown.

The top photo was me standing outside looking in, sighing happily, for quite a while.  Cheersed it even.

Owning a home is way more work and attention that I thought, probably good I had no idea what I was doing when I signed. Because it turned out to be the smartest thing I’ve done in years.

Blog tag = house