A YouTube Video infuriated Me on SO Many Levels! Why You Need a Faraday Box and Bags

 July 1, 2026

#546

Gentle reader,

Like many, many, people around the world, I love YouTube. I don't watch it for shuffle dancers or stupid criminals or car crashes of anything that would cause my empathy to short circuit or for me to be disgusted. I mostly watch it to LEARN things. Yes, for entertainment too. But definitely NOT how to do things that could get me or others hurt or killed or to be arrested by copying what they saw DONE in some YouTube video! No, sir! Or Mam!

Therefore, when I watched this video*: I Outsmarted Pro Car Thieves - YouTube I was ready to pull my hair out! And I'm already bald! *I'm not even sure HOW it came to be in my YouTube feed in the first place. And, frankly, I wish I could UN-watch it. Erase it from my memory, somehow. But, I can't. So, I am reaching out to you through this article so that you can equip yourself with a couple of small, inexpensive things to protect your precious cars, trucks or whatever you drive from being quickly and quietly STOLEN by people who watched the above video and decided to steal CARS too!

First of all, why did it infuriate me? Well, he shows how EASY it is to STEAL someone else's vehicles, especially Korean ones. That, I already knew. What I did not know was HOW thieves had such technology to do so, so easily. Well, he shows how to convert a BABY MONITOR into a DEVICE to STEAL cars. SHOWS. YOU. HOW! What the f is wrong with him?

But, what really ticked me off is the YOUNG, dark haired guy (another YouTube creator), who lives in a MANSION and brags about all the expensive CARS he owns, he is seen at the start of the video, the maker of said video (linked above) then decides to steal a RED Hyundai car that young guy is GIVING away! Okay, the video creator did so for entertainment purposes. But, that young guy dark haired guy, and I have NO idea who he is, nor do I want to learn his name, my big question is this:

HOW can someone so young acquire so much WEALTH by making YouTube videos? I know, I know, I'm a geezer, I acknowledge that. But there are so MANY young people out there who have become "Influencers" and so many, many, young viewers, WAY too many, who are impressionable young people out there who WORSHIP people like him. They desperately want to be JUST like him and get famous and rich on YouTube too! 

Now, to the Public Service portion of this article. I am showing you how YOU can easily and cheaply protect YOUR car's remotes from being the SOURCE the THEIVES quickly find and electronically GRAB from INSIDE your locked house: Faraday Bags and Boxes. They also make them for: Cell Phones, Wallets, Tablets and other devices which transmit and receive Bluetooth and other frequencies.

"RFID" is the term for such signals: Radio Frequency Identification. Your Debit and Credit cards use it too. I have RFID blocker cards in my wallet. There are SO MANY people out there, smart people, who would rather live by STEALING that by working for a living. Do NOT let them steal from you!

mr.key.com wrote this on their website: "Modern car remotes transmit radio frequency signals to communicate with the vehicle, allowing functions like locking, unlocking, and starting the engine without physical contact. These signals typically operate at frequencies such as 315 MHz for North American cars and 433.92 MHz for European and Asian models." Constantly! And they transmit it FAR!

For example, we drove to Baltimore, Maryland to see the Titanic Experience. We parked Nancy's 2022 Ford Maverick in an underground lot beneath a hotel. EVERY row and story in the parking garage LOOK the same. When we got back, we started walking and looking. Finally, I remembered the PANIC button on the remote. She pushed it and the truck's HORN started beeping. We followed the sound and eventually found the truck. Whew!

Let me ask you this, WHERE do you put your car's remote in your house or apartment when you walk in the front door? RIGHT inside the door, right? Like on a little table or in a bowl on a table. If you look at the image the video shows he is standing OUTSIDE a friend's front door with a circular antenna in his hands which is searching for the SIGNAL his friend's car REMOTE is transmitting. It takes him SECONDS to electronically grab it and transmit it to his buddy standing by that car. In SECONDS his friend is IN the car, has started it and DRIVEN away. Without the remote! 

You don't have to buy a Faraday box or bag, you can wrap your remote in aluminum foil. That's enough to stop the SIGNAL it is transmitting from being captured by car thieves. Or, and I am NOT selling you anything, I am not making ANY money by writing this article, Not one dollar! I just want you to know how easy it is for you to STOP the car thieves from stealing YOUR ride!

WE put all of our vehicle remotes in a box similar to the one shown above. We tried the bags shown above, but over time it started leaking the signal out. See below:

Nancy found one similar looking to these, it is marked: FARADAY embossed into the outside cover. To TEST the efficacy of any Faraday bag you buy: Put your remote inside it. Close the cover. Walk out to your car, and try to unlock it by pressing the door release or unlock button. If the car UNLOCKS, it is not a good Faraday bag!

If it does NOT work. Then, you know the bag is working fine. You can set your mind at ease knowing that your car is not going to be stolen. When we are out shopping, eating, or whatever, the remote is INSIDE the bag, inside my pocket. Yes, thieves are looking for SIGNALS in public places too. Again, they make Faraday bags in all kinds of sizes to protect your electronic signals from being captured by law breaking thieves!

Thanks for taking the time to read this video. I hope that you will take the small, inexpensive steps to get RFID blocking bags or boxes to protect your electronics soon. Feel free to comment below or via Facebook.

Scott Robb

July 1, 2026

#546