catculationTeslas Can Be Stolen by Hijacking WiFi at Charging Stations, Researchers Find
scopshackers only need a simple $169 hacking tool called Flipper Zero, a Raspberry Pi, or a laptop to pull it off.
At that point, why mention the Flipper Zero or RPi? Just say it can be done without specialized hardware. I feel like they’re trying to piggyback off of the buzz from the Flipper Zero being banned in Canada recently.
ikiddMaybe they’re trying to justify the stupidity of that ban. I’m still shaking my head over that, it’s like nobody bothered to ask the question “does this thing actually do the thing we’re mad about?”
What is the thing used for?
It can sniff radio packets, so if you have a ridiculously simple security system using RFID, you can record the pattern it emits off a tag when its pinged and play it back to defeat a security system. But no vehicle since the 90s has used a single code system that it would be able to defeat, so it’s useless for that.
The way thieves are defeating car locks is when the car listens for a fob within it’s security range (like the ones that unlock when you walk up with a fob in your pocket), and if people leave their keys close to a wall where the radio signal can be boosted so it reaches the car, it’ll pop the locks. The unit they banned, which is opensource and easily built from components you can get from Digikey or Mouser anyway, can’t do this. A common radio repeater or SDR can do this but banning that would be ridiculously onerous on industry.