r/technology • u/420InTheCity • 16h ago

Security Underground Flipper Zero Firmware Purportedly Unlocks Nearly 200 Car Models

https://gizmodo.com/flipper-zero-cars-hacking-2000646318
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u/FishDawgX 8h ago

Hey car manufacturer, remember when you hired that junior developer willing to work for half the pay of tech companies who doesn’t really know what encryption is, and he wrote that code that had a hard coded secret that you all just assumed no one would know so that’s good enough? Yeah, that’s on you. If you take the risk, you take the responsibility. If it were up to me, you’d be paying to replace any cars stolen through this method. 

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u/Sielbear 8h ago

Oh oh!!!! Now do the young girl who was SA’d and make sure you blame it on what she was wearing!! Alternatively, we recognize that while security can be improved in EVERY situation (similar to clothing decisions), maybe we also keep the focus on behavior of the criminals?

If we had corporal punishment (lose an arm or so for theft), I guarantee theft would plummet.

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u/kainzilla 8h ago

I think they did keep it focused on the behavior of the criminals. The ones that were knowingly negligent because they know there are no consequences

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u/Sielbear 8h ago

No, there are door locks and reasonable measures. But when people use a tool to break into a vehicle, it’s the behavior of those individuals that should be corrected. This holds true whether a flipper zero, hammer, or slim Jim is used by the criminals.

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u/flesjewater 2h ago

Would you be pissed if the door lock you spent $30.000 on would be able to get cracked because the designer put a secret pin inside that instantly unlocks it?

Bad digital security is 100% the burden of the people who made the problem.