Let’s ban bridges because people can jump off of them!
Let’s ban food because you can eat too much and become obese!
this would be more like banning shoes because people use them to go to bridges and kill themselves.
Security tools like Flipper Zero are essentially programmable radios, known as Software Defined Radios (SDRs), a technology which has existed for years, and in some cases can be built using open-source or simple over-the-shelf-components.
SDR is really cool:
That’s my local university; I listen to it all the time. It’s awesome to just listen to things from god knows where, knowing that it bounced around basically half the globe to reach me.
The tech itself is also really cool. You can have hundreds of people all listening and tuning to their own frequencies, all at the same time.
It’s really cool.
SDR? I thought it just had a CC1101 for sub-GHz digital and an NFC/RFID module? CC1101 is very flexible but it doesn’t do direct IQ sampling.
Open the firmware. Heck, open the hardware. Let companies come up with other authentication alternatives. Let the user or at least the mechanic decide what is used. It shouldn’t be locked down to a vendor, or shoehorned into vendor lock-in situations.
Proprietary ≠ safe & secure
Security through obscurity is not security
Whaddya ya talkin bout? Locks have been so secure for the past 100 years!
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I mean… An esp32 marauder is darn similar, and can be built.
We live in the information era, banning a novelty device with well documented methodology and diy alternatives is kind of low impact.
Edit: wait, you mean the car device firmwares don’t you… I’d be a fan of that too, open sourcing and running vehicle software like a true FOSS community effort would lead to incredibly robust and full features. Would be absolutely amazing to watch.
It sucks that it’s against a companies best interest to make a car that you can repair and maintain by yourself indefinitely. I can get electric motors, more energy efficient and potentially more environmental. But stuffing a car full of electronics that mimic what used to be mechanical dials and knobs is just building in an early death to the vehicle that doesn’t need to be there. Not to mention the fact that vehicles are now being built with the ability to be unlocked with something like the flipper which is an active downgrade.
We can thank laws for that too.
One piece that was included in a recent bill required new cars to come equipped with “safety” features that allow the engine to be shut off remotely. We have various other laws on the books like this, at least in the US, that prevent manufacturers from making basic vehicles any more and it fucking sucks.
The more and more I grow older, despite me being tech savvy and liking new innovations, I am getting tired of new features that end up being one more thing to break and leave me stranded somewhere or yet another security vulnerablity waiting to be exploited.
Thankfully we do have grandfather clauses that allow us to build our own vehicles without all that crap and can buy older vehicles and replace the combustion engine with an electric one. It’s just sad that it’s such a hassle to do and can’t buy a kit that allows this with little to no hassle.
It’s the 50:50 of requiring every technology that COULD be hacked by it to be remade, or just banning anything with a similar purpose outright
Last I heard the thing could hack into life-sustaining medical equipment
