The Canadian government plans to ban the Flipper Zero and similar devices after tagging them as tools thieves can use to steal cars.

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.

  • febra@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    Next, ban radio waves, because car companies are too damn dense to create a proper product lol

    • sebinspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      9 months ago

      I’m surprised no fobs use a time-based token to prevent replay attacks. Would make it a bit of a bitch to replace the battery, but hey-ho, tradeoffs.

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        They use rolling codes that aren’t susceptible to FlipperZero anyway. This is a dog and pony show.