Comment on Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts
QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works 4 months agoSignal playback doesn’t require anything extra. I love that their docs have a giant warning to not use it on new cars though.
Comment on Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts
QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works 4 months agoSignal playback doesn’t require anything extra. I love that their docs have a giant warning to not use it on new cars though.
twack@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Isn’t that because it can desync the actual keyfob?
Nvm… Clicked the link. That’s exactly why you shouldn’t do that.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Ah, so the cars still have shitty security implementations, only now it’s in the direction of “car needs service if someone tries to playback a previous signal”.
Though how does it work when you hit the button while out of range of the car?
It should be each fob has a private key that is used to generate a cryptographic hash of a random challenge string. Or hell, even give a rolling code a sequence number so they the car and fob can resync if necessary (I don’t think this would break the security, since the sequence could be started at a number other than 0).
jkrtn@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
That sounds dangerously close to an open standard that would prevent charging $500 for key fobs.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Any open standard can be tweaked slightly to make it a closed propriety one!
Though I do wish open standards were enforced for cars. Instead of each car/platform essentially being a mini monopoly that third parties need to design for specifically if they want to compete.
Fapper_McFapper@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That is my understanding and why I haven’t ventured into that area with my personal vehicles yet.