"We're seeing an increase in new care purchases" "What changed?" "We made them super easy to steal"

Same. This whole time I could be driving a new car each day. What a waste.

I use it at work to clone a customer's proximity card when I work in their building so they don't have to leave me theirs to get around. The one legitimate use I found.

I guess being able to trigger the customer service announcement without having to find a button in a store is nice.

Using NFC amibo codes for freebies in switch Zelda

I like to hijack the robot vacuum when I go to DnD and ring my parents doorbell when I visit.

You can get devices that connect to home assistant for that too! (Just a comment, not a suggestion that you are doing anything wrong.)

I do the same with mine. 😜

Fucking real! My car (2016 Toyota Avalon) uses a rolling code for the transponder! It's like one of the most basic things any manufacturer can do to avoid this shit! And it can't be more than a few dozen lines of code (I'm no expert so this may be an exaggeration)?

Trouble is the move to complete computerization. Back in the day we had physical keys which turned a physical switch to physically connect the power from battery to wake ECU. Now, we have a button that sends a REQUEST to the ECU to turn on or off, and as long as an acceptable transponder is around it will accept the request. If you turn your car off when u hit that stop button it REQUESTS that the ECU shut down assuming conditions are met. I have had a problem 202w wrangler JL turn on fine but refuse to shut off untill you pulled the terminals off the battery. This new age hyper computerized nonsense is why every mechanic hates these new age techno bullshit wanna-be computer appliances on wheels, canbus can be awesome for keeping all modules on the same page but one bad wire and the whole system takes a shit.

TBF most of these are failures and exploits on older devices.

Which are a dime a dozen across the entire industry. Security is rather difficult, especially when considering exploits and bugs.

Ofc many of these ARE the results of cut corners, though many are just a lack of security awareness or old devices with known exploits discovered long after manufacturing.

Give us fucking keys and BUTTONS. We dont want or need this tech shit they want to shove into everything so they can show cancerous growth to ther shareholders.

Also it's mostly security through obscurity. It is just difficult enough to dissuade most people, but not actually secure because that costs money.

I did this the last time an article about Flipper Zero’s hacking abilities went viral. I was worried about the same thing. Never came to pass, but now I use it to find microchips in lost animals so it was worth it.

https://github.com/Next-Flip/Momentum-Firmware

You're gonna want this. Removes the locked down parts of the OFW, among other quality of life improvements.

It's not the firmware in the article but if you want that you'll have to find that loser's telegram yourself and pay him for serial locked horse shit.

https://github.com/djsime1/awesome-flipperzero

Also this. Bunch of files to help you get started. Uberguidoz repo (linked there) especially.

It's cool but not magic. If you're trying to fuck with something, you need to know what frequency it's on and what sort of signals do what. There is a bunch of preloaded stuff though, and a wide variety of tools like radio frequencies, nfc, Bluetooth, rfid, and infrared. So far the most useful thing I've done is turn the volume down on fox News on tvs in public areas.

Oh one thing I still have to try: some, maybe most handicap buttons for doors are actually radio frequency based and not hard wired, so if you can capture and replay the open signal, you could open a door without hitting the button and look totally jedi.

Canada already banned it. Wish I'd got one sooner

It’s like how people think the Raspberry Pi is the only single board computer.

Lol yeah a very cheap rtlsdr with a chip for transmission can do the same as a flipper. Flipper just makes it easy.

Girl Tech?

Bro.

Stares in old lady

"And to prove it's not a fluke we'll do it again!"

You'd be surprised what people will pay for a striker hellcat. Yea it's never gonna be as common, but it will happen. It is easier to steal a hellcat with a flipper zero than to pull apart a column to get behind the ignition and turn it without the key, if anything hacking into cars is quicker and easier than defeating a physical key! My SO push button 15 Jetta could easily be stolen with a flipper, but my 87 YJ with a physical key requires an understanding of the wiring system and the time to tear down the column to be stolen. Any dunce capable of buying a flipper loaded with appropriate software can easily steal any new push button car.

Securtiy by dysfunction!

outside of mucking about.

The best use case of all.

Can you be more specific? It’s not like you’re the first person to think about the nefarious uses of emergency alerts.

I see this article more about reporting unfortunate news rather than boosting fear. The news seems to be "Car manufacturers don't take security seriously and people are exploiting it with a simple tool".

I'd rather hear about this now than wake up one day to see that my flipper is illegal because some politician watched a tiktok video.

My ethical gun is safer than your criminal gun.

Dude, do you want individual hacking to become illegal? Because people who are not hacking daily are prone to forgetting that some hackers don't actually act maliciously.

Also, yes, some hackers are ethical and do care. Not you, obviously. But some.