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Hacking cars in JavaScript (Replay attacks in the browser with the HackRF)


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In my tool, I tuned the antenna to the frequency 433.92MHz, pressed the button on a cheap doorbell I bought and was able to confirm everything worked by seeing the data in the spectrum visualizer. I'm not actually interested in hacking cars in a malicious way but one of the things I wanted to experiment with is running a rolljam/replay attack from the browser and this can be done with the three functionalities I explained in the rest of this post. Parts of this project are still a work in progress, I really wanted to implement a functionality to analyze the binary data recorded to be able to do some reverse engineering but I haven't gottent to it yet.

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