Comment on Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown

ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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  • rdyoung@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I had not heard of that one. Was it the “internet is full of tubes” guy?

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    • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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    • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Happened around 2021-10-15:

      Missouri Gov. Mike Parson said that his administration is pursuing the prosecution of a local newspaper reporter who alerted the government to website security flaws.

      It’s in the following sources, at least: TechCrunch, NPR, NY Times

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    • Aatube@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What's wrong with that "a series of tubes" speech? It seems pretty accurate to bandwidth

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• sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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  • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Now I have to put holes in my own cheese using my own secret, illegal methods

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    • agent_flounder@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, this one right here, Mounties.

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• rdyoung@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Case@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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    • rdyoung@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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      • Case@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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      • agent_flounder@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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• LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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