Stealing a Modern Car[Tech]

[jakka351]

After the recent loss of my job, I've decided to start stealing cars. Can anyone provide me any pointers on how to steal a modern vehicle?



Just kidding.


Perusing ebay, I came across these fake OBD ports that are an alleged 'anti-theft device'. Seems likely they are in-fact genuine diagnostic ports, just with the important bits disconnected, CAN-H, CAN-L, etc etc.


Seems like an interesting idea, also handy for those with a custom tune that don't want a PCM accidentally flashed. However I don't think this anti-theft device goes far enough in preventing the "anti-theft" bit. Why not hook up a genuine(or-fake) diagnostic port, with pins 14,6, 3,11 4,5,1,16 all rigged with a USB-killler-style device that would kill the device this would be thief(or soon-to-be-angry mechanic) is using.


Likely a pointless thing to post, as I'm asssuming most modern car theft is done via obtaining the keys or RF frequency mimicing + some hardware hacking.



Other-than my Scan-Tool-Exploding-OBD-Port idea, what are some practical and realistic ways to prevent car theft?






edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pryM7EFRO2A stealing a car via obd port