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Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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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.

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[โ€“] jkrtn@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 9 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.