Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts::The Canadian government plans to ban the Flipper Zero and similar devices after tagging them as tools thieves can use to steal cars.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce
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    1045 months ago

    Classic response, don’t hold the billion dollar corpos who actually design and manufacture the cars responsible. Ban the little device that exposes the flaws in their designs.

    • 7heo
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      5 months ago

      Yeah, let’s entirely outlaw pentesting while we’re at it. What could possibly go wrong? 🙈

      • @[email protected]
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        315 months ago

        Lets outlaw devices that could be used for pentesting while we’re at it. PCs, laptops, phones, etc.

        • @[email protected]
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          165 months ago

          Don’t forget paperclips, string, and aerosol cans. Hell, we should probably just ban wire altogether.

        • 7heo
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          85 months ago

          Brains. Technically that is the most useful device when pentesting. Along with curiosity. Altho on the former, I believe we, as a society, have actually started to…