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I'm always confounded by how bad most car security seems to be. I've given this about 5 seconds of thinking, and wouldn't it be pretty simple to do a local app-car setup step that generated a private key stored in the app and stored the public key in the car, requiring all commands to be signed with the private key in order to be accepted? There's no reason why the car manufacturers server should even be allowed to send commands to the car just based on a user account anyway.
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