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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.

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[-] BakerBagel@midwest.social 12 points 2 years ago

Personally, i would require car manufacturers to make their cars resistant to such trivial exploits, but this works too i guess

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

But, but, what about their precious profits??

[-] finkrat@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Eh it doesn't really, there isn't a surge in radio attacks on cars, it's just a novel concept so people are feeling spooked

But I'm with you on your first point, security needs to be hardened and the only one who can truly do that is the manufacturer

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

It's the equivalent of banning paperclips because they saw a videoclip of somebody opening locks with a paper clip, and completely ignoring all other tools that can open a lock faster than using the key.

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