Newish BMW Security Concern!!

[TW]Fox · 18 Apr 2012 at 12:02

Finglonga said:
Would you risk it?

Asking for trouble when your car blows up a dealer/indys diag equipment..

Will Gill · 18 Apr 2012 at 12:23

[TW]Fox;21709652 said:
Asking for trouble when your car blows up a dealer/indys diag equipment..

well it goes without saying you swap the pins back round if you actually take it in for a service etc..

I'm considering quickly making a website and offering it as a service and making up a load of OBD adapters to work with my fiendish idea - to negate the above

anyone with a modicum of enthusiasm out there want to get rich with me (i.e. do all the hard work and I'll go 90/10 with you

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PiKe · 18 Apr 2012 at 13:27

Will Gill said:
well it goes without saying you swap the pins back round if you actually take it in for a service etc..

I'm considering quickly making a website and offering it as a service and making up a load of OBD adapters to work with my fiendish idea - to negate the above

anyone with a modicum of enthusiasm out there want to get rich with me (i.e. do all the hard work and I'll go 90/10 with you )

Contact Pinter75.

Will Gill · 18 Apr 2012 at 13:36

oh I can do the physical bits and pieces, it's the web design and motivation I'm lacking knowledge/interest in

Sin_Chase · 18 Apr 2012 at 13:57

If it becomes a mainstream thing to do then thieves will just carry an adapter or make their own. Pin outs report wrong/data is un-usable. Chuck in the adapter.

Need a harness where the end user swaps both ends pinouts as part of the setup procedure to randomise it.

godinman · 18 Apr 2012 at 14:02

Surely it would be a fairly simple software update to stop this information being available via tha obc port? Recall imminent then I suppose.

Myshra · 18 Apr 2012 at 14:10

At a guess this may be possible, as in they left this ability in, so that if you lost both your keys in a housefire or whatever then it's still possible to re-program the car to a new key. It could just as easily be stupidity on their part but considering the fairly decent crypto they use for lock/unlock I'd hope this wasn't the case.

The Running Man · 18 Apr 2012 at 14:10

how easy is it to remove an old school steering wheel crook lock these days?

PiKe · 18 Apr 2012 at 14:34

Carry a wheel clamp.

Fr0dders · 18 Apr 2012 at 15:07

I think the best action would be to remove the ODB port altogether tbh.

Then fit a wiring harness in the dash to enable it to come out with one connector.

Then change the colours of the wires in the dash so any thief wouldn't have a clue how to wire it back up.

Then just plug in the port when you need it.

Just need some kind of adaptor made up, and cover it in something like dinoc? Any thief removing the cover will find a bunch of black wires plugged into a female pin adaptor of some sort that they've never seen and wonder WTF they were looking at

Brookert · 18 Apr 2012 at 17:29

MrLOL said:
I think the best action would be to remove the ODB port altogether tbh.

Then fit a wiring harness in the dash to enable it to come out with one connector.

Then change the colours of the wires in the dash so any thief wouldn't have a clue how to wire it back up.

Then just plug in the port when you need it.

Just need some kind of adaptor made up, and cover it in something like dinoc? Any thief removing the cover will find a bunch of black wires plugged into a female pin adaptor of some sort that they've never seen and wonder WTF they were looking at

Or don't buy a BMW

Controversial I know............