Ah, the irony... in the 90's you had to get your RF scanner FROM Canada or it would have analog cellular frequencies blocked!
Canadian government banning Flipper Zero to combat auto theft
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Re: Canadian government banning Flipper Zero to combat auto theft
#52This is what happens when you let your government run wild.
You can't carry a pocketknife in the UK, you can't carry a Flipper in Canada. Insane. I genuinely hope the US does not become even more of a farce of a democracy like these two.
Soon our own fingers will be banned "for our own safety."
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#55Relevant part:
> Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada will work with Canadian companies, and the automotive industry, to develop new solutions to protect vehicles against theft and to assist with recovery of stolen vehicles.
> ISED will pursue all avenues to ban devices used to steal vehicles by copying the wireless signals for remote keyless entry, such as the Flipper Zero, which would allow for the removal of those devices from the Canadian marketplace through collaboration with law enforcement agencies.
The actual solution would be to force auto makers to have better security that can't be cracked by script kiddies. Banning a tool like the F0 is like banning hairpins or paperclips because they can be used to pick locks. Their primary "purpose" isn't that at all. What would be okay is to ban the use of an F0 to steal a car. Not ownership of an F0, or a screwdriver.
Re: Canadian government banning Flipper Zero to combat auto theft
#56Banning a Flipper Zero for Car Thefts is like banning a BB Gun for Firearm Deaths.... You're targeting the wrong device lol. edit: Further perspective: You need something that can perform a relay attack. You need someone with a powerful enough antenna to find the remote inside someone's home and relay it to a person near the car. This involves at least 2x CC1101's > As you can see, small embedded antennas are very in…
this is just on brand for the Liberal government They banned a bunch of sport shooting and hunting guns because they look “scary” when criminals largely use handguns to commit crime. Licensed gun owners in Canada are statistically the least likely people out of all to commit crime of any kind (let alone gun crime), as they are background checked every day. Let alone the fact that criminals use illegal black market ha…
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Re: Canadian government banning Flipper Zero to combat auto theft
#57The Flipper Zero is a general-purpose tool and STEM educational device. By banning the device, a country would be setting back their workforce of engineers and scientists a bit. How can you use a Flipper Zero to steal a car? Flipper Zero can't crack hard encryption. Is the real problem that cars were made with security that they already knew was negligently weak at the time? If so, is a recall of those cars more appr…
Nah fuck this.
Someone on the plane I was on kept triggering it to do bluetooth attacks ('not your airpods') while I was trying to read (and have my earphones on connected via bluetooth so fuck me right?).
There's hacked firmware's you can install [0]. I understand that there are probably tons of other devices like this out there but this one was SO fucking popular and easily accessible.
I've already seen this thing abused and used in a super obnoxious way. Frankly I think you should be arrested for having it on in the passenger cabin of an airplane.
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#59Never cared much about the Flipper Zero personally, but now that governments are banning them I guess it's time to buy one. Great unintentional marketing campaign, Canada!
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#60It not banned yet: might be worth to send comments to Jean-Sebastien.Comeau@iga-aig.gc.ca the email address on that page. > Office of the Honourable Dominic LeBlanc Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs
I tried emailing that address but got this back:
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