It’s like banning swiss army knives
That’s why we went forth and banned everything swiss, army, or knive, altogether
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ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I see how that might make sense to lawmakers. It does present itself as a problem. But the fact that it is a symptom of a security issue is the reason it shouldn’t be outright banned. I haven’t used the thing, but it has looked to me like a pretty snazzy multitool.
It’s like banning swiss army knives. I can see why it looks like it makes sense, but it really doesn’t.
sukhmel@programming.dev 7 months ago
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Now I have to put holes in my own cheese using my own secret, illegal methods
agent_flounder@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yes, this one right here, Mounties.
rdyoung@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’ve been watching flipper since it was announced. I should probably buy one and play with it.
All this is going to do is increase sales of the thing and probably increase the number of “kids” trying to break into cars. Streisand effect ftw.
Case@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
I have one.
Its fun.
But on the subject of rolling codes, I was able to get through a security gate that relies on, essentially, a garage door opener.
The exploit relied on the ridiculously low amount of rolling codes it cycled through.
Capture one, and try it a few times to get through.
Cars are more robust. Despite tinkering with it for about 8 hours, I wasn’t successful with defeating it. That being said, I picked up the device, in part, to start messing around with various signals as an educational tool.
rdyoung@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I really should get one. I should also grab the latest version of kali (if that’s still around), I haven’t played with that in a long time.
Case@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
Kali is still around, I last did an install ~6 months ago, I think?
That got put on the back burner though, not because of the flipper, just life.
agent_flounder@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It is: www.kali.org/get-kali/
I should add this and flipper to the list of things to play with at some point soon.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The real problem is Flipper Sero is just a nicely packaged tool that can also br easily assembled with other off the shelf parts. And those parts alone can do many other things that should not be made illegal. The real solution should be from car manufacturers and ensuring that they don’t use tech that can be so easily hacked.
CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It reminds me of a lawmaker in one of the flyover states that wanted to make it illegal to look at the source code of a website.
Think about this for a second.
And realize that this twat is writing laws.
rdyoung@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I had not heard of that one. Was it the “internet is full of tubes” guy?
CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No, it was a few years back when a researcher found that there was a plain text file of county employee social security numbers just sitting inside the JavaScript of a government website.
There are too many Google results from the upcoming election for me to sort through but suffice it to say, the guy was a class A idiot.
sukhmel@programming.dev 7 months ago
Happened around 2021-10-15:
It’s in the following sources, at least: TechCrunch, NPR, NY Times
Aatube@kbin.social 7 months ago
What's wrong with that "a series of tubes" speech? It seems pretty accurate to bandwidth