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- Are there areas or neighborhoods in cities where car thieves prefer to steal cars?
- There is a widespread myth that in every city there are safer areas where there is practically no crime. And so it is. But this tale is not about the hijackers. Especially if the hijackings are carried out using equipment within 1-2 minutes. In this case, the car can be stolen right from the central square near GUM. By the way, it is in safe areas, where crimes rarely occur, that it is even safer to steal, since the vigilance of citizens living in it is reduced. This means that the risk of being caught red-handed during the theft will be lower.
- What, in your opinion, provokes the hijackers?
- Often the owners themselves are to blame for car thefts, provoking criminals to steal. For example, very often theft occurs at a gas station during refueling, when many car owners leave their ignition keys in the car. Also, such thefts are often found in closed paid parking lots, where drivers get out of the car to pay for parking, leaving the keys in the ignition. Agree, a professional hijacker is unlikely to resist such a temptation. After all, there is nothing easier than jumping into the driver's seat, pressing the gas pedal to the floor and waving the handle to the owner of the car.
- Where do car thefts occur most often?
- Public parking spaces are like a gold mine for car thieves and criminals of all stripes. Who does not graze here. Both professionals and amateurs, and those who are engaged in the usual theft of things from the car, stupidly breaking glass. There are, of course, car carriers and purse holders. They tell you from the TV screens that crime in Ukraine is decreasing.
In fact, everyone knows that in times of crisis, the number of crimes grows. It's just that lately they don't like to advertise the rampant crime on TV. Naturally, in the years of crisis, the number of thefts also grows. And where can you quickly find a victim? Of course, at any shopping center or in any public parking lot.
It is even better if the car is in a garage, where there are usually no prying eyes and much less risk of being detected.
- But what about the security?
- Yes, what kind of security there! Two pensioners who sleep better than babies. Especially after drinking a bottle of vodka. Yes, even at the shopping center security is one name. After all, any shopping center is not responsible for your property in the parking lot. Even in a paid parking lot near the shopping center, if your car is stolen, the administration will not be held liable according to the law. So when you park your car in a public parking lot (even a paid one), no one cares about your car except the car thieves.
Hijacker Confessions 1.1.0
- In what places in public parking lots are cars stolen most often?
- As a rule, most car thieves prefer to choose cars away from the main entrances to the shopping center or from the entrance to a residential building / office building. The further the car is from the central places, the better. Therefore, I advise all motorists to try not to park their car far from the entrances to buildings somewhere on the edge of the parking lot, as many people like, believing that in such places there is less chance that someone will damage the car. That is so, but it is in such places that your car can be stolen. If there are video cameras near the shopping center, any building, then try to park the car in their field of vision. In this case, the likelihood that the hijackers will use your car in the parking lot is minimal.
- Where else are cars stolen more often?
- Of course, in the courtyards of residential areas. The main thing is to choose an ideal place for theft, where the car is less visible from the windows, and also does not fall into the field of view of passing traffic police crews. It is advisable that the car is in a dark place. Therefore, we advise you to park your car directly under the lampposts. True, our team, when engaged in thefts, turned off such lights in no time, since there are still many old poles on the streets of many cities with access to the wires at the bottom of the post. It is today more often to come across pillars without access to the wires in the lower part. And then turning off the lantern in the yard was as easy as shelling pears.
- Have you ever been stopped in a stolen car?
- Any experienced hijacker has many interesting and funny stories about how they were stopped by police officers and then released. In many respects, of course, this is the merit of the hijackers themselves, who, if their tongue is hanging and there is more than enough impudence, even the chief of the traffic police shift will speak.
We have had many cases when we were stopped by DAI staff. But we often just chatted. Once, instead of documents, they showed a wallet with money. True, this was back in the late 90s. In those years, for $ 100, you could not only be released in a stolen car, but also escorted to any place in the area.
- So is it possible to protect your car 100 percent from theft?
- As I said, if they want to steal your car (for example, an order has been received for it), they will do it by any means. They will be hijacked, even if you hide your car in a garage in a super-guarded place. Yes, even a whole company of soldiers will guard your car. The hijackers, in order to fulfill the order, will still figure out how to steal your car. How? Yes, in extreme cases, they will throw you out of the car at a traffic light or at a gas station. It's even worse when they break into your house in order to get the keys to your car. Yes, it will already be robbery or robbery, and not any theft. But the car will go away. The goal has been achieved. The order has been completed.
In general, I would like to advise all car owners not to rely on their standard factory alarms. Even in expensive cars, such factory security systems can be hacked very easily. Equipment for such hacking alarms today is a dime a dozen on the Web. Moreover, it has dropped significantly in recent years. Alas, gone are the days when equipment for breaking several car models could cost $ 50,000-100,000. Today, many things can be bought for only 100-150 thousand UAH. This, of course, will be some kind of Chinese rubbish. But it will work. Yes, not for long, but enough for a few hijackings. Naturally, it will quickly beat off.
Hijacker Confessions 1.1.0
Also, I do not advise counting on the vaunted satellite signaling. She will scare away or help the police find only amateurs. If the pros take on a car with a GPS bug, then you are unlikely to ever see your car. Today there are many cheap devices that easily jam the signal not only of GPS / GLONASS, but even cellular communications. So the option to hide a cell phone or a transmitter with a SIM card is also not a panacea for theft. The main thing is to remember that it all depends on who will steal your car. If they are professionals, then they will drown out everything that is possible.
Therefore, I advise you to install an additional set of security systems immediately after purchasing a car, which will include not only an additional electronic unit, but also a number of mechanical protective systems.
In order to reduce the risk of car theft, you just need to increase the potential time of car theft. And the larger it is, the less chances that the hijackers will decide to contact your car.
Again, I'm talking about professionals who often refuse to steal complex cars. Look how many cars cost today near houses at night or near a shopping center during the day. Today, finding a car that is easier to steal has become much easier. Therefore, there is no problem for the pros to leave a complicated car and find another one on the same day or night and steal it.
- Is it possible to reduce the number of thefts if manufacturers complicate the standard car alarms?
- Theoretically, of course, you can. But at the expense of non-professionals, who find it increasingly difficult to steal even the cheapest cars, because this requires not only expensive equipment, but also knowledge of electrical engineering, electronics and much more. Yes, modern security systems are becoming more complex, and this indirectly affects the situation with theft. But not by much. Amateurs are leaving this area. But there are more professionals. Accordingly, this does not particularly affect the statistics of thefts. Take a look at the statistics of thefts. There is, of course, a decrease in theft, but it is scanty.
But you shouldn't rely too much on automakers and think that soon they will create regular signals that will be impossible to get around. Believe me, they don't need it. In general, there is a conspiracy theory that car manufacturers are interested in the constant theft of cars. Especially expensive and exclusive, which cost a fortune. After all, the more such cars are stolen, the more new cars will be bought again.
Look at what happens to the keyless entry system. Experts and electronics engineers have been ringing all the bells for several years, proving more than once how seriously vulnerable almost all of today's modern keyless entry systems are. In fact, this system made it easier for hijackers to steal. After all, now you don't even need to break the ignition lock by turning it with a crank or picking up the master keys.
Now you don't even need to connect your engine control unit with a built-in immobilizer to the stolen car and start the victim's car with your key. Today, it is enough to relay the signal of the key, which, for example, lies in your bag or in the hallway of the house, and open the car with the help of another radio receiver. A child can start the engine. After all, for this in a car with keyless entry, you just need to press the start / stop button.
Hijacker Confessions 1.1.0
The thing is that this method of hijacking (the so-called hijacking using equipment of the "fishing rod" type) became possible due to the fact that all automakers did not provide for a dynamic change of the electronic signal that the contactless key fob constantly emits into the radio air. After all, to begin with, it was necessary to make sure that the key would start giving a signal on the air only when the owner of the car with a radio tag approaches the car. In this case, hijacking using a repeater would become impossible at a remote distance.
There are, of course, other ways to improve the burglar resistance of vehicles with contactless access systems. But, alas, things are still there. The automakers have not yet proposed any important changes to the automaker. This indirectly indicates that someone has no desire to change anything. Everyone is happy with everything. Hijackers steal, carmakers make new cars, car dealerships sell them. Everyone is happy. All with a profit. Also, manufacturers of security systems do not remain at a loss. After all, the more thefts, the greater the demand for non-standard security systems.
In general, the problem of theft probably cannot be solved. There are actually thousands of ways to steal a car, from stealing with a tow truck to the help of workers at car washes, car dealerships, car services, etc.
- What are you doing now?
- After my fifth trip in a row across the vast expanses of our homeland, where correctional colonies are scattered, many of which were still built during Stalin's time, I decided to quit. Also, my “colleagues in the shop” did it. As a result, each of us scattered in all directions. Someone got a job in a car service, someone as a seller in a car shop. My second colleague and I got a job in a company that designs, manufactures, and also installs our own security car complexes.
By the way, my knowledge and experience were very useful. Especially the department of engineers and technologists, who, when developing security systems, take into account all our professional secrets in this dangerous craft.
The only negative is that along with the technologies in the auto world, the skills of hijackers are also growing, who also do not sit idly by and improve their methods of theft. And since I am already out of this business, then, of course, I cannot know that, for example, just the other day some genius-electronics engineer figured out how to bypass the laser keys of a Mercedes.
- And how do they steal Mercedes with complex keys?
- I propose to round off. Firstly, I no longer engage in theft. And secondly, I have already told you enough that no one will tell you.
The main advice for those who are afraid, like the end of the world, that their car will be stolen, is not to have a car at all. If you panic and think that you are constantly being watched in order to steal your beauty, then it is better to buy a CASCO policy. Believe me, you will be much safer than even if you install three alarms on your car, several mechanical protections, hidden buttons and tags, satellite and cellular beacons.
- There is a widespread myth that in every city there are safer areas where there is practically no crime. And so it is. But this tale is not about the hijackers. Especially if the hijackings are carried out using equipment within 1-2 minutes. In this case, the car can be stolen right from the central square near GUM. By the way, it is in safe areas, where crimes rarely occur, that it is even safer to steal, since the vigilance of citizens living in it is reduced. This means that the risk of being caught red-handed during the theft will be lower.
- What, in your opinion, provokes the hijackers?
- Often the owners themselves are to blame for car thefts, provoking criminals to steal. For example, very often theft occurs at a gas station during refueling, when many car owners leave their ignition keys in the car. Also, such thefts are often found in closed paid parking lots, where drivers get out of the car to pay for parking, leaving the keys in the ignition. Agree, a professional hijacker is unlikely to resist such a temptation. After all, there is nothing easier than jumping into the driver's seat, pressing the gas pedal to the floor and waving the handle to the owner of the car.
- Where do car thefts occur most often?
- Public parking spaces are like a gold mine for car thieves and criminals of all stripes. Who does not graze here. Both professionals and amateurs, and those who are engaged in the usual theft of things from the car, stupidly breaking glass. There are, of course, car carriers and purse holders. They tell you from the TV screens that crime in Ukraine is decreasing.
In fact, everyone knows that in times of crisis, the number of crimes grows. It's just that lately they don't like to advertise the rampant crime on TV. Naturally, in the years of crisis, the number of thefts also grows. And where can you quickly find a victim? Of course, at any shopping center or in any public parking lot.
It is even better if the car is in a garage, where there are usually no prying eyes and much less risk of being detected.
- But what about the security?
- Yes, what kind of security there! Two pensioners who sleep better than babies. Especially after drinking a bottle of vodka. Yes, even at the shopping center security is one name. After all, any shopping center is not responsible for your property in the parking lot. Even in a paid parking lot near the shopping center, if your car is stolen, the administration will not be held liable according to the law. So when you park your car in a public parking lot (even a paid one), no one cares about your car except the car thieves.
Hijacker Confessions 1.1.0
- In what places in public parking lots are cars stolen most often?
- As a rule, most car thieves prefer to choose cars away from the main entrances to the shopping center or from the entrance to a residential building / office building. The further the car is from the central places, the better. Therefore, I advise all motorists to try not to park their car far from the entrances to buildings somewhere on the edge of the parking lot, as many people like, believing that in such places there is less chance that someone will damage the car. That is so, but it is in such places that your car can be stolen. If there are video cameras near the shopping center, any building, then try to park the car in their field of vision. In this case, the likelihood that the hijackers will use your car in the parking lot is minimal.
- Where else are cars stolen more often?
- Of course, in the courtyards of residential areas. The main thing is to choose an ideal place for theft, where the car is less visible from the windows, and also does not fall into the field of view of passing traffic police crews. It is advisable that the car is in a dark place. Therefore, we advise you to park your car directly under the lampposts. True, our team, when engaged in thefts, turned off such lights in no time, since there are still many old poles on the streets of many cities with access to the wires at the bottom of the post. It is today more often to come across pillars without access to the wires in the lower part. And then turning off the lantern in the yard was as easy as shelling pears.
- Have you ever been stopped in a stolen car?
- Any experienced hijacker has many interesting and funny stories about how they were stopped by police officers and then released. In many respects, of course, this is the merit of the hijackers themselves, who, if their tongue is hanging and there is more than enough impudence, even the chief of the traffic police shift will speak.
We have had many cases when we were stopped by DAI staff. But we often just chatted. Once, instead of documents, they showed a wallet with money. True, this was back in the late 90s. In those years, for $ 100, you could not only be released in a stolen car, but also escorted to any place in the area.
- So is it possible to protect your car 100 percent from theft?
- As I said, if they want to steal your car (for example, an order has been received for it), they will do it by any means. They will be hijacked, even if you hide your car in a garage in a super-guarded place. Yes, even a whole company of soldiers will guard your car. The hijackers, in order to fulfill the order, will still figure out how to steal your car. How? Yes, in extreme cases, they will throw you out of the car at a traffic light or at a gas station. It's even worse when they break into your house in order to get the keys to your car. Yes, it will already be robbery or robbery, and not any theft. But the car will go away. The goal has been achieved. The order has been completed.
In general, I would like to advise all car owners not to rely on their standard factory alarms. Even in expensive cars, such factory security systems can be hacked very easily. Equipment for such hacking alarms today is a dime a dozen on the Web. Moreover, it has dropped significantly in recent years. Alas, gone are the days when equipment for breaking several car models could cost $ 50,000-100,000. Today, many things can be bought for only 100-150 thousand UAH. This, of course, will be some kind of Chinese rubbish. But it will work. Yes, not for long, but enough for a few hijackings. Naturally, it will quickly beat off.
Hijacker Confessions 1.1.0
Also, I do not advise counting on the vaunted satellite signaling. She will scare away or help the police find only amateurs. If the pros take on a car with a GPS bug, then you are unlikely to ever see your car. Today there are many cheap devices that easily jam the signal not only of GPS / GLONASS, but even cellular communications. So the option to hide a cell phone or a transmitter with a SIM card is also not a panacea for theft. The main thing is to remember that it all depends on who will steal your car. If they are professionals, then they will drown out everything that is possible.
Therefore, I advise you to install an additional set of security systems immediately after purchasing a car, which will include not only an additional electronic unit, but also a number of mechanical protective systems.
In order to reduce the risk of car theft, you just need to increase the potential time of car theft. And the larger it is, the less chances that the hijackers will decide to contact your car.
Again, I'm talking about professionals who often refuse to steal complex cars. Look how many cars cost today near houses at night or near a shopping center during the day. Today, finding a car that is easier to steal has become much easier. Therefore, there is no problem for the pros to leave a complicated car and find another one on the same day or night and steal it.
- Is it possible to reduce the number of thefts if manufacturers complicate the standard car alarms?
- Theoretically, of course, you can. But at the expense of non-professionals, who find it increasingly difficult to steal even the cheapest cars, because this requires not only expensive equipment, but also knowledge of electrical engineering, electronics and much more. Yes, modern security systems are becoming more complex, and this indirectly affects the situation with theft. But not by much. Amateurs are leaving this area. But there are more professionals. Accordingly, this does not particularly affect the statistics of thefts. Take a look at the statistics of thefts. There is, of course, a decrease in theft, but it is scanty.
But you shouldn't rely too much on automakers and think that soon they will create regular signals that will be impossible to get around. Believe me, they don't need it. In general, there is a conspiracy theory that car manufacturers are interested in the constant theft of cars. Especially expensive and exclusive, which cost a fortune. After all, the more such cars are stolen, the more new cars will be bought again.
Look at what happens to the keyless entry system. Experts and electronics engineers have been ringing all the bells for several years, proving more than once how seriously vulnerable almost all of today's modern keyless entry systems are. In fact, this system made it easier for hijackers to steal. After all, now you don't even need to break the ignition lock by turning it with a crank or picking up the master keys.
Now you don't even need to connect your engine control unit with a built-in immobilizer to the stolen car and start the victim's car with your key. Today, it is enough to relay the signal of the key, which, for example, lies in your bag or in the hallway of the house, and open the car with the help of another radio receiver. A child can start the engine. After all, for this in a car with keyless entry, you just need to press the start / stop button.
Hijacker Confessions 1.1.0
The thing is that this method of hijacking (the so-called hijacking using equipment of the "fishing rod" type) became possible due to the fact that all automakers did not provide for a dynamic change of the electronic signal that the contactless key fob constantly emits into the radio air. After all, to begin with, it was necessary to make sure that the key would start giving a signal on the air only when the owner of the car with a radio tag approaches the car. In this case, hijacking using a repeater would become impossible at a remote distance.
There are, of course, other ways to improve the burglar resistance of vehicles with contactless access systems. But, alas, things are still there. The automakers have not yet proposed any important changes to the automaker. This indirectly indicates that someone has no desire to change anything. Everyone is happy with everything. Hijackers steal, carmakers make new cars, car dealerships sell them. Everyone is happy. All with a profit. Also, manufacturers of security systems do not remain at a loss. After all, the more thefts, the greater the demand for non-standard security systems.
In general, the problem of theft probably cannot be solved. There are actually thousands of ways to steal a car, from stealing with a tow truck to the help of workers at car washes, car dealerships, car services, etc.
- What are you doing now?
- After my fifth trip in a row across the vast expanses of our homeland, where correctional colonies are scattered, many of which were still built during Stalin's time, I decided to quit. Also, my “colleagues in the shop” did it. As a result, each of us scattered in all directions. Someone got a job in a car service, someone as a seller in a car shop. My second colleague and I got a job in a company that designs, manufactures, and also installs our own security car complexes.
By the way, my knowledge and experience were very useful. Especially the department of engineers and technologists, who, when developing security systems, take into account all our professional secrets in this dangerous craft.
The only negative is that along with the technologies in the auto world, the skills of hijackers are also growing, who also do not sit idly by and improve their methods of theft. And since I am already out of this business, then, of course, I cannot know that, for example, just the other day some genius-electronics engineer figured out how to bypass the laser keys of a Mercedes.
- And how do they steal Mercedes with complex keys?
- I propose to round off. Firstly, I no longer engage in theft. And secondly, I have already told you enough that no one will tell you.
The main advice for those who are afraid, like the end of the world, that their car will be stolen, is not to have a car at all. If you panic and think that you are constantly being watched in order to steal your beauty, then it is better to buy a CASCO policy. Believe me, you will be much safer than even if you install three alarms on your car, several mechanical protections, hidden buttons and tags, satellite and cellular beacons.
