This is about more than just cars. Anything that uses RFID, NFC, etc, such as an employee badge or even contactless credit/debit card payments, are vulnerable to such an attack.
Regardless of whether it’s open source hardware/technology, should we be authorising sales of such prebuilt devices for $170 which can allow the average Joe to break into an office or steal a car?
did you read the article? the flipper can essentially “break into” next-to no cars produced after 1990
Should ‘we’ be ‘authorizing sales’ is an interesting choice of words imo also, nothing negative just saying it made me question who the “we” part really is, and if something being sold has thus been authorized by some all powerful body
This is about more than just cars. Anything that uses RFID, NFC, etc, such as an employee badge or even contactless credit/debit card payments, are vulnerable to such an attack.
Jason Thor Hall (ex-Blizzard employee) explains how such things can be used in social engineering attacks. A Proxmark is a similar device to the Flipper Zero.
Regardless of whether it’s open source hardware/technology, should we be authorising sales of such prebuilt devices for $170 which can allow the average Joe to break into an office or steal a car?
Yes we should allow them, because the problem isn’t that this tool is available. The problem is that cars and other devices aren’t more secure.
If you broke into a bank vault with a screwdriver, you don’t ban screwdrivers; you get mad at the bank.
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Jason Thor Hall (ex-Blizzard employee) explains how such things can be used in social engineering attacks.
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did you read the article? the flipper can essentially “break into” next-to no cars produced after 1990
Should ‘we’ be ‘authorizing sales’ is an interesting choice of words imo also, nothing negative just saying it made me question who the “we” part really is, and if something being sold has thus been authorized by some all powerful body