The Canadian government plans to ban the Flipper Zero and similar devices after tagging them as tools thieves can use to steal cars.

The Canadian government plans to ban the Flipper Zero and similar devices after tagging them as tools thieves can use to steal cars.

  • atx_aquarian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    133·
    1 year ago

    “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.

    "Also, it’d require actively blocking the signal from the owner to catch the original signal, which Flipper Zero’s hardware is incapable of doing.

    Just politicians trying to appear to be doing something so they can keep their jobs.

    • AutistoMephisto@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      Yes, but even if the base model hardware is incapable of doing something, someone savvy enough could modify it. It’s the same logic they use to ban AR-15s in some states in the US. By default, all civilian ARs are built to fire in semi-auto only, BUT, a knowledgeable individual can make it fire in full auto if they drill a hole in the lower receiver in just the right spot.

      • Bye@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Are people downvoting this because you made a fair comparison between something they like (flipper) and something they don’t (guns)? Like are you being downvoted out of cognitive dissonance?

      • gian @lemmy.grys.itEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Yes, but even if the base model hardware is incapable of doing something, someone savvy enough could modify it.

        Which negate the whole point of the discussion.

        If someone can modify it, the same someone does not need it.