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This gets deep, Electronic Design writer says it works….

duffy — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:36:50 +0000

Louis E. Frenzel says unlocking your car from a cellphone works. This guy is no slouch, check out his bibliography.

“I was skeptical, to say the least, about this rumor, and was about to dismiss it as one more Internet hoax. But I thought I better try it out first. Well, low and behold, it works. I tried it with both GSM and cdma cell phones, and it reliably opens (and relocks) the car.

I have been racking my brain for days about how this works. Two or more different wireless technologies are involved. I even used a 2.4 GHz cordless phone to make the call. The remote keyless entry usually uses on-off-keying (OOK), a form of ASK, to modulate a 315 MHz carrier with the correct serial digital code. Somehow the calling phone picks up this information and transmits it to the receiving cell phone, which then magically retransmits it to the door lock receiver in the car? Yeah, right. “

Laptops to steal cars

duffy — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:01:55 +0000

“High-tech thieves are becoming increasingly savvy when it comes to stealing automobiles equipped with keyless entry and ignition systems.”

How Safe is your Car?

duffy — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:45:22 +0000

“Try our light-hearted quiz to see how long you are likely to be the owner of your present vehicle! Be warned, these are all ways in which vehicles can be stolen.”

http://www.met.police.uk/barkinganddagenham/car_quiz.htm

Hey, it didn’t work for me!

duffy — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:41:32 +0000

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_unlock_door.htm

“Comforting though it may be to imagine you can unlock your car door in an emergency by receiving a distant signal via your cell phone, it can’t possibly work — not with the technology as it now stands, at any rate.

Here’s why:

Your remote car key operates by sending a weak, encrypted radio signal to a receiver inside the automobile, which in turn activates the door locks.

Since the system works on radio waves, not sound, the only conceivable way a signal from your spare remote could be picked up by one cell phone and relayed to your car’s onboard receiver by another would be if both phones were capable of sending and receiving at exactly the same frequency as the remote itself — which they can’t be, given that all remote entry devices operate at frequencies between 300 and 500 MHz, while all mobile phones, by law, operate at 800 MHz and higher.

It’s apples vs. oranges, in other words. Your cell phone can no more transmit the type of signal needed to unlock a car door than your remote key is capable of dialing up your Aunt Mary … though no one can predict what miracles the future may bring. “

OMG

duffy — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:02:54 +0000

a weiner asks:

Does this work for the older cars with no power locks or all types of locks?

wanker responds:

No, because non-power locks don’t have remotes and therefore can’t be unlocked remotely.

Dude, where’s my cell?

duffy — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:04:16 +0000

Here’s a sample google post from today. Apparently dude says it unlocked my shit.

Trend Micro requests….

duffy — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:00:09 +0000

Trend Micro requests that email users not forward this email, which is a hoax.

Some debate the on the possibility

duffy — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:55:11 +0000

The sound of a drowning voice of reason

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/forum/forum_comments/1943/

Snopes Remote Possibility (haha)

duffy — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 15:52:26 +0000

Here’s what snopes has to say about the Remote Possibility

“(More than a few people have inadvertently fooled themselves into believing the cell phone method of unlocking car doors actually works because they tried it and achieved the desired results — not realizing their cars were still within range of their keyless remote devices, and the signals that unlocked the doors were transmitted the usual way [i.e., through the air], not via cellular phone connections.) “