Emergency remote car unlocking method

**Biff** · 7th February 2005, 22:09

Originally Posted by Skunk

I'll bet you're modest, charming, handsome, rich, independent, and caring too.

We must have met for you to know me so well. Did you have a ginger curly perm?

**Biff** · 7th February 2005, 22:39

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

That’s not wot he said at all, rolling code is irrelevant (although highly desirable).

The point is the cellphone isn’t retransmitting the signal in any way, all it would be passing is any audio noise (none anyway) through the speaker, which ain’t going to do jack.

Originally Posted by F5 Dave

More amusing is some early nasty alarms used infrared. Some guy at my old work bought an import with it.

Some clown bought a learning TV remote & gained access. Kept changing subtle things, moving the seat position, next day turn the radio way up, leaving chocolate wrappers. Had him flummoxed for days.

Here's a geeky story for ya - I used to work for a very well known manufacturer of electronic widgets. I worked at a place that manufactured & developed their TV's, and as such had access to the companies Infra Red Code Book (IRCB). This is the infra red codes/language that this company employed to programme it's TV's, by infra red, during production. I.E press this button on the remote the channel changes, volume up.down for those buttons etc.

It also contained the codes for nastier things like - erase the TV's operating software, wiping the non volatile (permanent) memory chips.

Around this time I had a Casio wrist watch that could be programmed with infra red codes, it would "learn" codes. So I took a TV programming remote, squirted it at my Casio wristwatch which then stored the entire IRCB. This was useful as a lot of my job entailed fiddling with developmental TV's etc, so I often used my watch as a remote for the TV's.

Some time later I got ripped off by a certain major UK electrical store. Basically I bought something, it broke within a couple of weeks, they wouldn’t exchange it - or such like. So in a long drawn out period of retaliation I visited some of their major branches (but not the one I bought the faulty gear from) regularly, over a period of months, possibly even years. Every time I visited one of their stores I'd go straight to the TV section and discreetly fuck up every single TV (and a fair few other helectronical widgets that accepted an infra red command), in the shop. The only way they could fix these things was to send it back to said manufacturer for a "re-boot". Childish - yes. Geeky - hell yes

I could sell the film rights to this story - Revenge of the Geek?