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Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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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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[โ€“] just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The Flipper is literally just an ends to a means. An easily accessible action for hardware. Nobody is stopping any random person from buying a number of $3 dongles for their laptop and using it in the exact same way.

[โ€“] Hobo@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

Yes but the flipper requires zero base knowledge to use it whereas setting up the hardware, installing the software, and troubleshooting any issues takes about the same amount knowledge as a helpdesk gig in IT. Again, I don't think making them illegal does shit. I do think it's rather obstinate to not acknowledge that the barrier for entry to execute those attacks was lowered substantially by the flipper though.