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Of course it's already being used. When Average Joe thinks about a criminal he thinks some thug hood with a brick.

The professional criminals are affiliated with syndicates and mafias have money and resources. They can hire the talent able to figure out decoding these trivial radio signals.



> They can hire the talent able to figure out decoding these trivial radio signals.

I don't expect even older radio access systems to be that simple to abuse. For example this application note from Atmel[0] describes such a system. It uses an AES-based MAC and a rolling window counter to prevent message spoofing and replay. I wouldn't bet this implementation is actually secure, but it's not so trivial to attack.

Please note I'm not saying that criminals haven't abused vulnerabilities in these systems, just that it's not a simple matter of 'decoding these trivial radio signals'.

[0] http://www.atmel.com/images/atmel-2600-avr411-secure-rolling...




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