Letting the Air Out of Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems

Presented at DEF CON 18 (2010), July 30, 2010, 4:30 p.m. (20 minutes)

Since 2008 every new car sold in the US requires some type of Tire Pressure Monitoring System be installed. The most popular uses simple unencrypted RF communications to relay the tire pressure information back to the car ECU. This talk goes over the basic history, implementation, and most importantly the unforeseen issues with privacy and subversion of TPM systems

Presenters:

• Mike Metzger - Owner, Flexible Creations
  Mike Metzger is a technology consultant offering network, security, virtualization, and programming services for his company Flexible Creations. He has spent the past 14 years in networking and security working for various companies dealing with firewall, IDS/IPS, DLP, network storage, etc. Lately he has become much more involved with physical computing & fabrication and is a member of the Dallas Makerspace and a founder of the Dallas area Embedded Workshop group.

Links:

• https://defcon.org/html/defcon-18/dc-18-speakers.html#Metzger
• https://infocon.org/cons/DEF CON/DEF CON 18/DEF CON 18 video and slides/DEF CON 18 - Mike Metzger - Letting the Air Out of Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems - Video and Slides.mp4 (Video and Slides)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUsE9aTLYnk

Similar Presentations:

• ToorCon San Diego 15 (2013) / Dude, Where's My Car? Reversing Tire Pressure Monitors with an SDR
• BSides Austin 2017 / An IoT pressure cooker: What could go wrong!?
• Diana Initiative 2019 / Working Remote Can Be Overwhelming and Lonely, Let's Change That!