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Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown (arstechnica.com)
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[–] scytale@lemm.ee 54 points 10 months ago (1 children)

exclusively for illegal and just generally anti social behavior.

Except they aren’t. These devices are used for various non-illegal purposes and are actually helpful for pentesters so we can learn about potential vulnerabilities on wireless systems before they can be exploited by bad actors. The same way a usb cable is useful for transferring data and at the same time can be used for illegal stuff (like literally any hack where you connect to a device via usb). The worst part (and the article mentions it), is that it doesn’t even work on security systems on cars built since the 90’s. So they’re banning something that isn’t even a problem in the first place.