Letting the Air Out of Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems

DEF CON 18

Presented by: Mike Metzger
Date: Friday July 30, 2010
Time: 16:30 - 16:50
Location: Grande E-F
Track: Track 5

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

Mike Metzger

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.


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