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Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts
- serengetti 3y agothis is what happens when government tries to solve a problem. by the same token they can solve homelessness by making it illegal to sleep on the street.
- lifeisstillgood 3y agoIs it just me or is it “if your car can be unlocked by someone recording the signal it’s not secure so chnage up the security?” Plus, stealing a car is only half the job unless you are joyriding.
- serengetti 3y agoWe wouldn't want to force car makers to hire actual engineers and pay them a living wage to make the cars secure, that would be too much; let's just make crime illegal, that'll solve our problems.
- chrisjj 3y agoHow practical is upping the security short of upping the whole vehicle? Asking for an insurer friend ...
- nothercastle 3y agoProbably quite practical if the insurance company made them
- serengetti 3y agoit actually wouldn't cost the manufacturers that much, 90% of vulnerabilities are in software, so skilled developers could address a vast majority of the problems. car companies don't want to do that, because that means they won't be able to have backdoor access to the car when they want to disable a "pay-per-use" feature, or have some proprietary service done that nobody else is allowed to do.
- LinuxBender 3y agoJust anecdotally myself and a few friends used to mod our cars to have 4 to 8 double-pole-double-throw toggle switches under the dash in a metal box bolted to the dash and would secure the wiring harness. Not foolproof but also not trivial to bypass as one has to know which switch goes what direction and it did not cost much. After a while one gets used to fingering the switches into the correct position without much thought. In the incorrect positions the ignition switch is entirely out of the loop. This may be harder to do on newer cars. Maybe a similar yet updated technique could be applied to newer cars?