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

  • itappearsthat [he/him]
    hexagon
    hexbear
    11
    2 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, comrade/them]
      hexbear
      3
      edit-2
      2 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]
        hexbear
        8
        2 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, comrade/them]
          hexbear
          3
          2 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.