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Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts::The Canadian government plans to ban the Flipper Zero and similar devices after tagging them as tools thieves can use to steal cars.

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[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Personally, i would require car manufacturers to make their cars resistant to such trivial exploits, but this works too i guess

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

But, but, what about their precious profits??

[–] finkrat@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Eh it doesn't really, there isn't a surge in radio attacks on cars, it's just a novel concept so people are feeling spooked

But I'm with you on your first point, security needs to be hardened and the only one who can truly do that is the manufacturer

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

This, but apparently they already did this in 1990. Though it sounds like this might instead make the fob go out of sync and no longer work, but that's also on the manufacturers.

Also I wouldn't be surprised if phones could be made to do radio signal recording and playback. You might need a USB ADC/DAC and antenna, but it's not like this device is doing something really sophisticated for this particular attack.