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

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year 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.