A tamagotchi-like device for harvesting codes transmitted over radio, seems like a fun toy

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    8 months ago

    I believe Canada has determined that small hobby radios are too dangerous for the free citizens of the west to own, and I love that for them.

    • itappearsthat
      hexagon
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      8 months ago

      They wrote a fun reply to that where they go over what car thieves actually use (not a flipper zero) and how to hack the sort of radio systems that the flipper zero can handle with wire cut from a pair of earbuds: https://blog.flipper.net/response-to-canadian-government/

      • roux [he/him, they/them]
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        8 months ago

        Hello? Based department?

        Sort of reminds me of when Signal somehow managed to get ahold of that Cellebrite phone hacking thing and reverse engineered it.

        Link: https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/

        • edge [he/him]
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          8 months ago

          Their customer list has included authoritarian regimes in Belarus, Russia, Venezuela, and China

          cringe

          I’m sure the actual content of the post is fine though.

          • roux [he/him, they/them]
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            8 months ago

            I glossed right over that lol. A tldr is that they somehow managed to acquire the phone cracking device the pigs use and they poked around and found out that it's riddled with vulnerabilities.