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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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[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 3 points 9 months ago (11 children)

I saw this on Mastodon the other day and started digging into it. Seems like a really cool project although the chip they used appears inferior to the ESP32? I found a few similar projects based on the ESP32 but they seem to be limited to wifi/bluetooth captures only with the possibility of other options if you swap out the firmware. This makes me question why the ESP32 with 4MB of flash cannot do much more than the Flipper Zero with its 1MB of flash and a CPU that runs at 1/3 the speed (or less) and only a single core? Anyone have some ideas, and/or have seen other open projects based on the ESP32 that do all and more that the Flipper Zero can do?

[–] anlumo@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Probably just a matter of writing the right firmware and building the right hardware. I don’t think anything is stopping you from doing that.

The problem with microcontrollers is that code isn’t easily portable, so this device is stuck with its hardware.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah I wasn't too concerned about the hardware side of things, I was just curious about finding software because I don't really know anything about pentesting. Guess I'll keep looking around.

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