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dkaleta | 6 years ago

When you unlock your Mac with an Apple Watch, the OS makes sure the watch is actually close to it by measuring the distance it takes the signal to travel to the device. Why won't car manufactures do that? Is there any reason?

https://bgr.com/2016/06/27/macos-auto-unlock-security-apple-...

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Kiro|6 years ago

What prevents the thieves from just standing closer in that case?

icebraining|6 years ago

The signal still has to travel from the car to the authentic key, the thieves are just amplifying the signal, they can't make it faster.