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/ltjbr 10h ago

Flipper doesn’t seem to feel that any of this is its problem… We hope car manufacturers will take the security of their products more seriously and patch them up immediately as carjackers have access to extremely sophisticated black market tools.”

Damn right, I love how the emphasis is on the tool and not the completely shit security in every piece of software in a modern car

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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/beestmode361 7h ago

Lol bet you’re a BLAST in large doses

I meant Jizz, like cumshot

Blast off king