Mach E Car Hacking?

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Thomas is back. This is getting quite annoying!
I'm just here for the Thomas and Brent threads later - "Ford's terrible because I can't ever authorize the car in FordPass!" [67 pages later] "oh oops I had the VIN wrong" [22 more pages]
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Well either Thomas realized he was trying to access the wrong car or someone locked him out.
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Well either Thomas realized he was trying to access the wrong car or someone locked him out.
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Did you hit deny today too when you got that final removed access notification?

Perhaps after a certain number of failed tries, someone trying to activates gets locked out, like how if you put in an incorrect password to login too many times on numerous sites/apps you get timed out or have to reset the password.
 

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A simple toggle "prevent further authorization attempts" or requiring login from the car instead of initiating it at the app would easily solve these issues. They could even use the factory keypad code (card) as the cars 2FA to add additional users.

I'm sure this is just a learning curve issue for Ford and I hope no one else has to deal with it because that would be severely annoying.
 
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Did you hit deny today too when you got that final removed access notification?

Perhaps after a certain number of failed tries, someone trying to activates gets locked out, like how if you put in an incorrect password to login too many times on numerous sites/apps you get timed out or have to reset the password.
Nope. I was in a cell phone Black hole Monday and didn’t even see the “request” until today.
 
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Maybe keeping VIN's on this site is not so much of a good idea
 
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Maybe keeping VIN's on this site is not so much of a good idea
Except I tried to always post it with the final numerical sequence xxxx-ed out.
 

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Well either Thomas realized he was trying to access the wrong car or someone locked him out.
The word get out? We needed to create two accounts for one car. If you would have multi users inside the fordpass account and the vehicle tied to only one account instead of multi accounts having access would that control things a bit better? Have an admin section in the account where you can control all current accesses? Good thing you did not randomly click accept and here is to hoping your message means resolved.

Maybe keeping VIN's on this site is not so much of a good idea
Just noted my vin thru my front windshield. Sort of like the 3 secret numbers on my credit cards. The 3 I tell everyone about. ;)
 
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The word get out? We needed to create two accounts for one car. If you would have multi users inside the fordpass account and the vehicle tied to only one account instead of multi accounts having access would that control things a bit better? Have an admin section in the account where you can control all current accesses? Good thing you did not randomly click accept and here is to hoping your message means resolved.


Just noted my vin thru my front windshield. Sort of like the 3 secret numbers on my credit cards. The 3 I tell everyone about. ;)
Yes, VINs are far from secret.
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