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.

  • Lettuce eat lettuceEnglish
    104•10 months ago

    Classic response, don’t hold the billion dollar corpos who actually design and manufacture the cars responsible. Ban the little device that exposes the flaws in their designs.

    • 7heoEnglish
      50•10 months ago

      Yeah, let’s entirely outlaw pentesting while we’re at it. What could possibly go wrong? 🙈

      • @fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31•10 months ago

        Lets outlaw devices that could be used for pentesting while we’re at it. PCs, laptops, phones, etc.

        • @twack@lemmy.worldEnglish
          16•10 months ago

          Don’t forget paperclips, string, and aerosol cans. Hell, we should probably just ban wire altogether.

        • 7heoEnglish
          8•10 months ago

          Brains. Technically that is the most useful device when pentesting. Along with curiosity. Altho on the former, I believe we, as a society, have actually started to…