And yet it is cracking

Translator's foreword:

When I was preparing a translation more than a year ago on the topic “ Your car in the near future can easily be hacked by hackers, ” he was greeted with a wave of skepticism and accusations of escalating empty panic, of “captaincy,” etc.
Recent news reports say that the matter nevertheless went “to the masses”. Although not the first fresh news, but it is interesting, in my opinion. So, the continuation, the translation of one blog entry geekosystem.com:

Fresh frightening fact: your car can be opened. And not with a sledgehammer and crowbar, but with the help of SMS. Researchers Don Bailey and Mathew Solnik, working for iSec Partners, have found a way to open cars via SMS by penetrating interaction protocols that allow smartphone apps to control alarms (open doors, start the engine). It turned out to be not so difficult.

The couple reported that they were able to get a way to intercept and fake these messages, which takes only 2 hours. Bailey is going to talk about his research at the upcoming Black Hat conference in Vegas, and, fortunately for automakers, he’s a pretty wise and honest guy, so he won’t tell you the technical details until the programmers release the fix.

Now that these vulnerabilities are “bare”, it is surprising to realize that most of us could not imagine such a thing. Well, you probably imagined, but I didn’t. Now, “hacking” will be associated with people not only with the theft of some data, but also with the theft of real, physical property, sometimes worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Fortunately, you are not at risk if your car was born at a time when the Internet had not yet launched its teeth in everything around. No one will open the doors of your Toyota Camry of the 98th year with anything other than a crowbar. The objectives of such attacks will be mainly cars of the highest classes of companies Mercedes and BMW, which offer such things as a standard feature in basic trim levels. Of course, because such hacking methods are becoming more common, then they will be used everywhere and a means of protection against them. But this does not guarantee you safety, however.

The message:

With this translation I want to provoke a discussion of current trends when general-purpose computers and the Internet penetrate all spheres of our lives, giving both convenience and comfort, and bringing with it risks that, when translated into the physical plane, become very impressive