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.

  • @twack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6•11 months ago

    Isn’t that because it can desync the actual keyfob?

    Nvm… Clicked the link. That’s exactly why you shouldn’t do that.

    • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1•11 months ago

      Ah, so the cars still have shitty security implementations, only now it’s in the direction of “car needs service if someone tries to playback a previous signal”.

      Though how does it work when you hit the button while out of range of the car?

      It should be each fob has a private key that is used to generate a cryptographic hash of a random challenge string. Or hell, even give a rolling code a sequence number so they the car and fob can resync if necessary (I don’t think this would break the security, since the sequence could be started at a number other than 0).

      • @jkrtn@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3•11 months ago

        That sounds dangerously close to an open standard that would prevent charging $500 for key fobs.

        • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2•11 months ago

          Any open standard can be tweaked slightly to make it a closed propriety one!

          Though I do wish open standards were enforced for cars. Instead of each car/platform essentially being a mini monopoly that third parties need to design for specifically if they want to compete.