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.

  • RBG@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    591·
    1 年前

    “Flipper Zero can’t be used to hijack any car, specifically the ones produced after the 1990s, since their security systems have rolling codes,” Flipper Devices COO Alex Kulagin told BleepingComputer.

    I guess Canada must have a ton of old cars?

    • 7heo@lemmy.mlEnglish
      34·
      1 年前

      Or the “rolling codes” have glaring implementation issues, but it is cheaper to ban the Flipper Zero than recall the cars, so the manufacturers made an executive decision… (⚠️ YouTube)

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      1 年前

      It also can’t be used to hijack cars produced before the 1990s, since they mostly don’t have keyless entry in the first place.

    • Socsa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 年前

      Rolljack attacks are absolutely not trivial to pull off and I am quite skeptical that a flipper can even do it reliably, if at all, since it requires reactively jamming the transmission after the attacker has already decoded it. I don’t believe these devices have enough power to reliably jam the key fob, much less the speed to do it reactively.