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Kia & Hyundai Helped Enable a Crime Wave... They Should Pay For It

#kia#masterkey#antitheft#hyundai#car
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0:00 what else would a Korean person say I must remind someone you're like assault uncivilized always stealing every day I'm supervised you could have unlocked car in South Korea nobody's gonna steal it [Music] so you guys been hearing about the Kia and Hyundai crime wave yes pretty pervasive yeah everywhere you made the USB key thing yeah yep my neighbor's car got stolen so to catch people up right can die they're able to easily steal these cars using a little USB method and they just go in do it they're in and out very fast it's happening it's a crime wave all over the world right now um when it comes to Kias and Hyundais and some people have chosen to blame Kia and Hyundai for

0:50 this what what I thought the state of California was suing them uh Seattle is I think that's crazy Seattle California is suing them now dude the blames are funny like some people are just flat out blaming Tick Tock or like the police are blaming Tick Tock I blame the people they should just all buy Mercedes Korean like car manufacturer and you're like wait it's our fault that the cars are stolen but it's like well that is what they're arguing so there's a there's an opinion you should have realized Americans were a bunch of crooks and made better security systems why'd you make it so easy for them to steal it but USPS Korean yeah whole Koreans are in trouble dude yep that's the one now they took

1:41 you know yeah they're like so that's the argument right I didn't know everybody's gonna be stealing every day here in Hyundai not the public should bear the cost of their irresponsible decision to sell cars without immobilizers what they're creating unsafe products costs of their decision have reached have far-reaching effects on Public Safety we don't have a burglars like you guys so we don't even know that this exists keep going I want more what else would a Korean person say [Laughter] I'm like a car in South Korea nobody's gonna steal it makes it that's my next question because all the in Korea where there's probably the most

2:31 Hyundai's in case I would imagine does anybody steal them there no no they only have Mercedes out there they only sell those they don't like you want to hunt that though yeah I haven't had one stolen yet because there's still that piece of ████ damn Koreans love Lexus and Mercedes they don't even buy their own car so what Kia and Hyundai have done to try and stem the thefts they have a software update they say fixes the issue with the USB but it requires a visit to the dealer and takes up to 45 minutes to install they also have started giving police departments anti-theft steering wheel locks to hand out to affected like the club yes like the club that's already been like that's that's a freaking hacksaw fix away is it a defect Brian's waffles but that's like that was already yeah

3:22 Ryan's like you guys don't have hacksaws yeah get a ████ hacksaw you idiots great right once I give you the software upgrade they put a little sticker in the window that that basically tells Steve's they're going to waste their time on this car because we already got the upgrade stickers out so it's like brings home security you just get the sign even if you don't pay for them I bet that does work though you know it must like it stops people that is still gonna get your window broken yeah yeah it is crazy that it's the blame is on the automaker you know what though that's pretty enough because I think like I get it if it was unsafe driving like yeah you need to recall this ████ airbag because it blows up in people's faces or like you know like if it's if it's like this Tire's ████ up or whatever that makes sense because the purpose for it is to be driven that's it but then if it's like

4:13 the anti-theft device isn't good enough or whatever I just don't get why that's the mess like if it's already anti-theft like it locks right yeah but then now you need like some crate like some extra level because the culture at the country is ████ crazy let me push let me push back so we all I think all of us have Ledger Nano s is like our Ledger devices to protect our cryptos right and if there was a vulnerability or a flaw that hackers are now exploring wouldn't we not blame Legends yeah of course we would and so because this vulnerability existed in these vehicles and they made it so easy for thieves to steal is it not on them as well but a vehicle is not like I don't get the purpose of a vehicle for it to be like a safe yeah I don't lock my valuables in there or like like a a safe like the purpose of it is like a

5:04 bank a bank vault but when you hit lock on your car don't you have an expectation that your car this should hold up yeah right and I think that that's the expectation the consumer has when they're purchasing the vehicle especially when they're paying how much for these cars it's the uh it's an exploit and then and if one guy can teach the next guy and that just becomes the thing because if have you seen the videos of people doing it it's super easy it is super easy you take out the steering column panel block pull this ████ out plug this ████ in and then you can turn it that's too easy see even like to the standard of like 90s car theft that's two and I'm not saying like the you know there's thieves out there or even like locksmith guys who are probably laughing at this anyway because they could easily get into any car right yeah yeah but that's a different conversation than this vulnerability that anybody can exploit I mean these are like 14 year old kids doing it yeah you don't need the skill set right you

5:54 don't have to like build that skill up to go swipe a car it's kids that can't steal any other card that's got to be a different problem you know what I mean but what a rush they feel though huh oh yeah they turn that ████ thing and it goes on how do they get in they can get in the car with the USB no you just bust the car if you break the window first but you but then if you rip the steer well I don't ████ get more Kia stolen I see well you know there was something no it's so easy there was something really like similar to this in the 90s where it was super easy by having something called the G key so when you had a master key like a dealership would have a master key for all the Camrys or Toyotas or whatever right and it's one key fits all for all the cars uh what they would do is like thieves and whatever would basically find access to a GQ whether it's like

6:45 they steal it from the dealership or they have a shady guy at the dealership make them a copy or whatever and then you were able to just break into cars and turn it on and leave but that's like I don't know if that's the manufacturer's fault because it's being exploited you know what I mean like the GQ was over the master key wasn't met the hands of themes but also too like if you were the ████ president of Hyundai or Kia and you saw this popping off wouldn't you be like man we should try to fix this I think if your sales are going down fix the problem yeah yeah because at that point yeah I think that's the that would be the question is like how fast did they act and is it too late for the cars that already are in circulation also I think it depends on like where the line of responsibility is like if it's like you go up to a car you can just open the car

7:36 door only starting from the entry of the car yeah that's the car maker they ████ up but if it takes bashing a window clearing the glass doing all of that and then getting in so it takes like a burglar to get into the car then I'm like I don't know if that's then it's like the responsibility that's on the car maker gets reduced reduce reduce so that's what the big corporations are saying as well it's just super easy [Laughter] is saying that the city's lawsuits are without Merit arguing basically it's like they have their hand up Bart's ass saying exactly the same thing uh arguing that Federal Auto Safety Regulators do not require automakers to install immobilizers on their vehicles that is basically just a device they make sure you're using the exact right key when

8:26 you click the click ignition right yeah um so it's they're saying that's not on them I understand that all the alarms because I see it in the same vein of like let's say I buy a a helmet right if I ride a bike I fall off and then I hit my head and my ████ skull cracks open that might be the helmet's fault if I ride a bike I do a triple back flip off the Queen Mary land on the sidewalk and then my skull cracks open I'm like dude you gotta make better helmets I don't know I think might be on me I really don't think but that's that's such like a unique user Case by case no but this guy's these guys are breaking into the cars already it doesn't matter what Electronics yeah but but the fact

9:16 that there is a specific exploit where like all people are stealing this like every car is getting because if this is breaking the car they have a skill set to do it you can just walk in the car because why aren't these kids doing this to Teslas why don't they breaking Windows of Teslas because they can't there's no export why are they doing that to Rams or Mercedes but then that's what I mean like that means Tesla's above the average car the same way that KIA is below the average that's why I think like they should just do it for the motivation of sales because now in the Future No One's Gonna buy the next Kia for fear that this might happen later the name is getting tanked because the stain dragged in the mud already I don't I don't think again I don't think you should sue Kia because I really agree with you that like yeah they ████ up but they you weren't owed that they didn't nobody knew that that could happen because definitely when I see a key I'm like it's probably but it's ████ sales wise and PR wise yeah yeah so everybody's got to do something right

10:07 so like he's got to fix this ████ and also like maybe the ████ punishment for getting caught stealing cards needs to like get intensified well that's that's our problem yeah I also do think that with Bart's example if you don't put a label on that helmet saying don't do avert jump off the Queen Mary yeah that's on the helmet maker [Music]

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