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There are electrical junction boxes all over my neighborhood, that direct power to the stoplights and residential buildings (?). They have a simple padlock, and
by sdwr 2y ago
There are electrical junction boxes all over my neighborhood, that direct power to the stoplights and residential buildings (?). They have a simple padlock, and could be opened in 30 seconds with a lockpick or bolt cutters.
Nobody tries! Not even to test it out! The question isn't "How easy is it to break in?", but rather "Should I be tampering with this?"
- patrickmay 2y agoYour analogy breaks down immediately because the Internet isn't your neighborhood, it's effectively everyone's neighborhood, including the state-level bad actors mentioned above. If someone could access those electrical junction boxes from China or North Korea, I'd want the locals finding the vulnerabilities first.
- rvnx 2y agoHypothetic answer from state-actor: "We will push an update to Flipper Zero for this, the right moment. Thanks to the Flipper Zero, we have millions of devices in the wild that we can remotely control and send signals from. Just wait."