Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown : technology

[–] jdw@links.mayhem.academy 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The problem, of course, is distinguishing between harmless and harmful use. There are painfully few things that are objectively good or bad.

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Hey, I've seen your deleted post about trying to seed your instance.
You seem to be the admin of a new instance.
By default, your instance won't see any remote communities content until someone subscribes.
Which is kind of a catch 22, because you kinda have to know about it to subscribe.
To browse for communities:
https://lemmyverse.net/communities
You can then use your instance's search bar to fetch it initially in order to subscribe to it yourself.
Which you've likely already done for this one.

There's also a tool that can do this for you:
https://lemmy-federate.com/ (which was formerly known as communityboost)
Then again it may subscribe to things you aren't interested in, so that may or may not be for you.

Cheers, welcome and good luck.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like buying a bunch of Flipper Zero devices and selling them on the street corner is a great investment opportunity

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

WTB.

I'm in the US. PM me with your scalper prices.

[–] InfiniWheel@lemmy.one -3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Can you even buy these without ending up on a list somewhere? Since its only sold online this feels like the kind of thing that gets you on a list

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[–] GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.ca -5 points 10 months ago

Why is that shit even legal?

[+] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today -6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I could care less about cars, but this thing has hacked glucose pumps and led to a St Jude's pacemaker recall, so fuck em. People can have their toys back after manufacturers of literally everything are better regulated. Until then, it's a weapon.

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

it can't do anything a rooted phone can't.
most features don't even require root (like android allows direct control over the ir blaster)

[–] doctorcrimson@lemmy.today -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Then why weren't glucose pumps and pacemakers being targeted by phones before these Flipper Zero started trending?

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[+] Clbull@lemmy.world -7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

This is about more than just cars. Anything that uses RFID, NFC, etc, such as an employee badge or even contactless credit/debit card payments, are vulnerable to such an attack.

Jason Thor Hall (ex-Blizzard employee) explains how such things can be used in social engineering attacks. A Proxmark is a similar device to the Flipper Zero.

Regardless of whether it's open source hardware/technology, should we be authorising sales of such prebuilt devices for $170 which can allow the average Joe to break into an office or steal a car?

[–] Toribor@corndog.social 1 points 10 months ago

I'd argue that these devices are so cheap and so capable that it exposes the poor security that is rampant everywhere. Banning them wont stop similar devices from being made and used criminally. Instead this should be a wake up call to everyone about which forms of communication or authentication are largely ineffective.

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