Brian Barrett
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2,652 appearances
24 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 Sep
Brian Barrett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They built a custom app so that as long as they were within Bluetooth range, they could send a radio signal to do all those things we mentioned.
Unlock, disable the alarm, honk the horn, flash the lights, disable the ignition, strand the driver.
It doesn't let you start the car remotely, but they also showed helpfully that once you're inside the vehicle...
A commercially available locksmithing tool will let you create a key within minutes.
I'll say too that Andy made a video showing how all of this works.
It's on Wired right now.
Highly recommend watching it.
Well, and there's already been, in your defense, Leah, too, there's already been a lot of relay attacks, they're called, with cars, where if you can get close enough to someone's key, you can copy the key radio signal and then use that to unlock a car.
So there's already...
an inherent vulnerability around cars that I think has been advertised pretty well.
To me, this is more just the fact that at least then you know that that can happen.
This is something where I don't know if I have car installed on my device.
Like,
To me, this justifies my decision to continue to drive a, I think, 12-year-old Volkswagen station wagon that is, the doors are literally falling apart.
It is disgusting.
The flaps on the back seat are like, I can't even describe it.
They're like falling off of the car.
The car is falling apart.
Yeah.
Well, or if someone were to steal it, God bless.
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