Comment on Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars

interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• CrackedLinuxISO@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I see this article more about reporting unfortunate news rather than boosting fear. The news seems to be “Car manufacturers don’t take security seriously and people are exploiting it with a simple tool”.

  I’d rather hear about this now than wake up one day to see that my flipper is illegal because some politician watched a tiktok video.

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  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t think it’s merely “reporting unfortunate news” It’s about the flipper zero, not really about car theft per say and shitty, evil car security system where the dealer scams you as much as the thief for a key.

    There’s really no reason we can’t use contactless smartcards for this, and that we can’t program them ourselves with open source software.

    The flipper zero itself is completely irrelevant about this. It’s just a generic ISM band transceiver … Only of note to the ignorant and technologically incompetent, but the journos have made this the centerpiece of the article.

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