Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars
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To be clear, the flipper is just a Girl Tech IM-me with an NFC chip. If it lets people do a thing, that thing has been possible for decades. Just wait until someone makes a popular device based on a cheap fully featured wideband SDR like the AD9363 or LMS7002. Shit is gonna get fucking wild.
Girl Tech?
Bro.
Stares in old lady
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not doing something by fear of the law is not ethical. that said, some of them are ethical, but ethical hacker would mostly include grey hats, which they wouldn't want because they can't say illegal hackers use their device.
"ethical hacker" is not defined as "someone who only hacks in fear of law". That's my point. Hackers with ethics do lots of shit. Some of them work within the law, some of them work sideways to the law, but your code of ethics and your legal code aren't quite the same thing, and you assuming they are is surprising.
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The lack of security awareness is due to them to scrooge to hire the right professionals for the job. It is 100% the result of cutting corners.
When a car is stolen, they typically get to sell another one, courtesy of the drivers insurance policy. They are incentivized to bad security.
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Manufacturers secure their vehicles against unauthorized repair, not against theft.
Also it's mostly security through obscurity.
It is just difficult enough to dissuade most people, but not actually secure because that costs money. -
"ethical hacker" is not defined as "someone who only hacks in fear of law". That's my point. Hackers with ethics do lots of shit. Some of them work within the law, some of them work sideways to the law, but your code of ethics and your legal code aren't quite the same thing, and you assuming they are is surprising.
I'm pretty sure that's what's meant by 'ethical hacker' in most cases and that's why I wanted to point out the difference you are pointing out right now.
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That's what you think is good about hacking? That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works. That's what you get when you get your education from TV.
Hacking means "misusing/modifying crap to work how you want".
Ethical hacking is e.g. modifying devices you own to run software you want, like e.g. running homebrew software on a game console. It is finding and reporting security vulnerabilities so that companies can improve their security. It is modifying software or devices to e.g. removing privacy problems or tracking.
And ethical hacking and law-abiding hacking aren't the same either, since some ethical hacking activities might be illegal (e.g. violating restrictions on modifying devices) and some legal hacking activities might not be ethical (e.g. using legal hacking to dox people).
And ethical hacking and law-abiding hacking aren't the same either
I prefer saying 'grey hat' instead of 'ethical hacker' because ethical hacker is now used to mean 'pentester', 'red teamer' and all the other cybersecurity stuff, or so it seems to me.
that was the entire meaning of my comment, I clearly didn't make it clear enough.
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And ethical hacking and law-abiding hacking aren't the same either
I prefer saying 'grey hat' instead of 'ethical hacker' because ethical hacker is now used to mean 'pentester', 'red teamer' and all the other cybersecurity stuff, or so it seems to me.
that was the entire meaning of my comment, I clearly didn't make it clear enough.
All of that is under the umbrella term of ethical hacker. Black/grey/white hat are some very outdated and unclear terms, and also terms that non-tech people don't really understand.
Ethical hacker is a term that lay people also understand and because of that it has replaced the rest of these terms.
(And also, "ethical hacker" encompasses both the grey and white hat. So it's not an equivalent term to "grey hat".)
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Blaming the flipper zero for hacking is like blaming lockpicking tools for why masterlock sucks so much.
"And to prove it's not a fluke we'll do it again!"
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Yea I have not been impressed with the Stellantis products of late lol. If I want to own a complicated headache I'll just buy a bmw or Audi lol (of which I have had both and both have been more dependable and straight forward than these new Chrysler products...)
You didn't buy the upgraded package the stereo told you about, that's why:
https://www.newsweek.com/stellantis-dodge-car-drivers-adverts-pop-ups-2045033 -
When a car is stolen, they typically get to sell another one, courtesy of the drivers insurance policy. They are incentivized to bad security.
Or built for a different market, like 90s Hondas/Nissans etc. which assumed every country was as safe as Japan when it came to car theft. Nowadays its mostly profit driven. Security is not cheap and can add it's own set of headaches (security vs convenience).
Edit: Nissan still sucked at it from what I remember hearing of those and some kias being the main target near where we lived.
