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What gives Flipper Zero an advantage over other radio SDRs? I know it's not mentioned but seeing it's popularity with car thefts and impending ban how does it

• fragmede 3y ago
  Can the flipper zero be used to steal cars? it's got a radio and can do raw input/output, so sure, but I've not seen anything definitive that says it can actually be used for that. you'd need a break in the encryption and seed values used in order to get into and start a car with one, and afaik, that's not been shown to be possible. I've heard a rumor that older models of certain cars have weaker implementations of how they handle rolling codes, but nothing definitive. more specifically, if I had such a break, you could program a cheaper device with the correct information. without anything definitive, it just comes across as fear mongering over a toy has the word "hack" as part of its description.
  • j0hnyl 3y ago
    I think the issue is that there cars that don't even have encryption.
    • Sayrus 3y ago
      Even then, repeating the signal is enough to start the car.
  • Kirby64 3y ago
    There’s also some cars such as the Toyota RAV4 that could have the car started via the CANbus connection. Thieves figured out you could take a headlight off and connect to the headlights CAN connection and start the car that way. Flipper could do that, I assume, but so could any microcontroller with a CAN add on board… https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/crooks-are-stealing-cars-using-previously-unknown-keyless-can-injection-attacks/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/crook...