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Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars
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this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2025
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If you can hack a car with a flipper zero, then the car manufacturers failed to implement the most basic security protocols. Complain to them, and demand a fix.
Fucking real! My car (2016 Toyota Avalon) uses a rolling code for the transponder! It's like one of the most basic things any manufacturer can do to avoid this shit! And it can't be more than a few dozen lines of code (I'm no expert so this may be an exaggeration)?
It is almost like their should be something written down somewhere. Like a guideline or rule or something...
Oh that is right, it is called a regulation requiring basic wireless security for extremely expensive consumer items.
Nope can't do that.
Won't someone think of the multi billion dollar corporations‽
Give us fucking keys and BUTTONS. We dont want or need this tech shit they want to shove into everything so they can show cancerous growth to ther shareholders.
TBF most of these are failures and exploits on older devices.
Which are a dime a dozen across the entire industry. Security is rather difficult, especially when considering exploits and bugs.
Ofc many of these ARE the results of cut corners, though many are just a lack of security awareness or old devices with known exploits discovered long after manufacturing.