{"id":59802,"date":"2024-02-09T20:24:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T01:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=08a02010ac81d22152f7d9236c6dea72"},"modified":"2024-02-09T20:24:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T01:24:51","slug":"canada-declares-flipper-zero-public-enemy-no-1-in-car-theft-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59802","title":{"rendered":"Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=2002579\">Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: \"This general purpose tool exposed that several car manufacturers did negligent things in shipping products, so we're going to go after the tool instead of holding the manufacturers accountable.\"<\/div><div><figure>\n  <img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/flipper-zero-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"A Flipper Zero device\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/flipper-zero.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Enlarge<\/a> <span>\/<\/span> A Flipper Zero device (credit: https:\/\/flipperzero.one\/)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has identified an unlikely public enemy No. 1 in his new crackdown on car theft: the Flipper Zero, a $200 piece of open source hardware used to capture, analyze and interact with simple radio communications.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/public-safety-canada\/news\/2024\/02\/federal-action-on-combatting-auto-theft.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> it will &ldquo;pursue all avenues to ban devices used to steal vehicles by copying the wireless signals for remote keyless entry, such as the Flipper Zero, which would allow for the removal of those devices from the Canadian marketplace through collaboration with law enforcement agencies.&rdquo; A social media post by Fran&ccedil;ois-Philippe Champagne, the minister of that agency, said that as part of the push &ldquo;we are banning the importation, sale and use of consumer hacking devices, like flippers, used to commit these crimes.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=2002579#p3\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read 19 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=2002579&amp;comments=1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comments<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ A Flipper Zero device (credit: https:\/\/flipperzero.one\/)<\/p>\n<p>Canadian Prime Minister Jus&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=59802\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}