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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Teslas

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Even so, the car manufacturers carved out large groups of codes. Since then, car manufacturers have improved on this. Certainly no one uses 40 bit encryption anymore. So the thing was that one major German car manufacturer had the standard pin of 1234. It wasn't very robust. It was a mere 40 bit key length.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

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After hearing a talk, a Dallas-based hacker set out to find out what was going on inside the smart meter attached to his home, and what he found was surprising. And I'm using a free service. Yeah, there are tracks at conferences, but it hasn't yet exploded into the mainstream. I'll just pay for it. Turns out they weren't.