• n3m37h@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Let’s ban a product instead of solving the issue at hand… Seriously? I hate my country more and more as each day passes

  • jonw@links.mayhem.academy
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    1 year ago

    The problem, of course, is distinguishing between harmless and harmful use. There are painfully few things that are objectively good or bad.

    • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Hey, I’ve seen your deleted post about trying to seed your instance.
      You seem to be the admin of a new instance.
      By default, your instance won’t see any remote communities content until someone subscribes.
      Which is kind of a catch 22, because you kinda have to know about it to subscribe.
      To browse for communities:
      https://lemmyverse.net/communities
      You can then use your instance’s search bar to fetch it initially in order to subscribe to it yourself.
      Which you’ve likely already done for this one.

      There’s also a tool that can do this for you:
      https://lemmy-federate.com/ (which was formerly known as communityboost)
      Then again it may subscribe to things you aren’t interested in, so that may or may not be for you.

      Cheers, welcome and good luck.

  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
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    2 years ago

    Read everyone, this is hype, and Canada is being dumb on this one.

    The Flipper Zero is also incapable of defeating keyless systems that rely on rolling codes, a protection that’s been in place since the 1990s that essentially transmits a different electronic key signal each time a key is pressed to lock or unlock a door.

    Most of this reaction is due to staged videos on TikTok and politicians not understanding technology. Maybe they’ll stop a few joyriding kids, but car thiefs aren’t using F0s.

  • Obinice@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    The device only gives easy access to already extremely weak/non existent security systems. That’s literally it.

    It’s just something that’s existed forever, but put into a convenient package and marketed well enough that suddenly normal people are realising how insecure their electronic systems actually are.

    Kinda like how they used to make pacemakers hackable because they never thought to add any security at all. I bet many of them still don’t.

    Anyway, the issue lies not with this device, which can’t “hack” anything with any actual security, the issue is with manufacturers making devices that literally leave the door wide open to anybody with an extremely basic electronic sniffer/cloner device.

    • mesamunefire@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Yep you can do the same operations with a RTLSDR (20-40$) and a signal repeater (20ish) and raspberry pi/netbook. It’s somewhat harder to do if you don’t know the software but it really just exposes very insecure hardware. Companies should put a semblance of security and it would take care of things. These kind of devices are everywhere not just the flipper. Flipper just made it a tiny bit more friendly.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    If the flipper can help you stealing a car, the flipper is not the problem, but the neglect and incompetence of the car company is.

  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 years ago

    Dude I think I might pick one of these up just for the IR, I miss the good ol days of controlling my tv and tvs on the go with my phone. I need to find out what all else it can do (and only use the powers for good), the RFID and NFC and garage doors and all that sounds like it could be convenient.