eli5: How hard is it to hotwire a car?

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Like when you turn the key in a car, it completes a circuit right? How hard is it to just take the wire connected to the switch and touch them together?

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As stated, old cars it was relatively easy. Gain access to the wiring off the ignition cylinder and complete the circuit, easy-peazy.

New cars run near field authentication protocols or imbedded chips in the keys that need to match encryption in the ECU. So unless you can overcome that… there’s no hot wiring in that cars future.

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