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.

  • sebinspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    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
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      9 months ago

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