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Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This, but apparently they already did this in 1990. Though it sounds like this might instead make the fob go out of sync and no longer work, but that's also on the manufacturers.

Also I wouldn't be surprised if phones could be made to do radio signal recording and playback. You might need a USB ADC/DAC and antenna, but it's not like this device is doing something really sophisticated for this particular attack.