Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown - eviltoast
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    11 months ago

    Of course, they don’t work on vehicles with rolling codes like, you know, all of them since the 90s. But don’t let the facts get in the way of a good do-nothing press opportunity.

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      11 months ago

      How are people even stealing cars by fob, then?

      Edit: It’s in the article. By using the fob + an amp or cracking the codes like big boys, neither of which this can do. Flipper Zero should sue the government for defamation.

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        11 months ago

        Yah, they just repeat the signal from a fob near a wall to hit the vehicle, which is now set to always open if the key is near enough. It’s a stupid setup that’s ripe for abuse like this, instead of just having the user press a button like they did before. That would have been impossible to exploit, but convenience always trumps security.