Hacker Uses Flipper Zero to Break Into a Navy SEAL's Van

[TaxmanHog]

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[chl]

Scary stuff!

 

[chriserx]

That's actually why I mentioned the flipper in a previous post. AFAIK the Ford firmware has actually been out for a couple years. The price prevents it from being a serious problem. I've actually wanted to get one for a while just out of idle curiosity.

 

[RLXXI]

Not surprised the way technology jumps, spooky but nothing one can do about it so why worry. I'm not adding any more grey hair. Just the nature of the wireless beast.

 

[chriserx]

Not surprised the way technology jumps, spooky but nothing one can do about it so why worry. I'm not adding any more grey hair. Just the nature of the wireless beast.

It can turn whatever color it wants, so long as it stays.

 

[chl]

Hair today gone tomorrow...maybe it's because of the tin foil hat?

So they don't hack into my brain, btw...

 

[Gimme_my_MME]

Hair today gone tomorrow...maybe it's because of the tin foil hat?

So they don't hack into my brain, btw...

 

[21st Century Truck]

On one of the Russian software mod companies' web page for the Ford / Mazda family (not/not FORScan) there had been a security product listed called in Russki a "seed", basically a hardwired hard-to-locate security locker / CANBUS system immobilizer for any RF-based theft approaches to the Ford & Mazda family of vehicles. Very unobtrusive, smaller than a penny-sized coin and a DIY install.

Obviously, in Russia with their weak legal systems and highly corrupted police at all levels, there is a viable market for such DIY property protection devices.

I'm adding this side info here as a reminder that any systems of physical, software-based, visual, RF-based or even local two-footed protection (parking lot guards, dogs etc.) evolve in response to observed & documented threats.

IMHO, despite addictive "breaking news" style algorithms we are all submerged in, the North American continent is basically a pretty darn safe, law-abiding place. In that light, OEM protection systems, law enforcement response times and insurance coverages seem pretty much appropriate and good enough for me.

 

[chl]

On one of the Russian software mod companies' web page for the Ford / Mazda family (not/not FORScan) there had been a security product listed called in Russki a "seed", basically a hardwired hard-to-locate security locker / CANBUS system immobilizer for any RF-based theft approaches to the Ford & Mazda family of vehicles. Very unobtrusive, smaller than a penny-sized coin and a DIY install.

Obviously, in Russia with their weak legal systems and highly corrupted police at all levels, there is a viable market for such DIY property protection devices.

I'm adding this side info here as a reminder that any systems of physical, software-based, visual, RF-based or even local two-footed protection (parking lot guards, dogs etc.) evolve in response to observed & documented threats.

IMHO, despite addictive "breaking news" style algorithms we are all submerged in, the North American continent is basically a pretty darn safe, law-abiding place. In that light, OEM protection systems, law enforcement response times and insurance coverages seem pretty much appropriate and good enough for me.

In Russia I hear they all have web cams to protect themselves from the police too. We don''t have wide-spread police corruption, but there are always a few individuals....we had one traffic cop locally who handed out a lot of bogus tickets - I even got one, but in court it was his word against mine - no dash cam then. A few years later I was glad to read he got caught in a sting giving out bogus tickets and was suspended and charged with crimes.

BTW, they say adding the Russian and central european keyboard layouts to your windoze OS will deter some Russian malware - they search for that before infecting so they don't accidentally attack other Russian hackers, so they say.

Yes, safety is relative - where you live vs where the crime / corruption is higher.
But even so, we all pay a price for criminal acts, natural disasters, etc. in higher insurance costs even when we live in a relatively safe place.

I think though we do have quite a bit of crime, a lot of 'white collar crime' in the US of A, and the legal system usually favors the wealthy well-connected folks who commit it. I am an attorney btw and electrical engineer.

Regarding our EV trucks and ICE versions, yes, the media exaggerates it sometimes. But organized gangs targeting vehicles' catalytic converters, F-150 tail gates and tail lights, which they can remove in under a minute and unload more easily than a whole vehicle, is a real thing, and no place is really safe from that any time of day or night. There was a surge in catalytic converter thefts in our area a few years ago - I painted ours bright orange which supposedly will deter them - paint suitable for high temperatures of course.

I also have wired security cameras and the system is on a UPS backup should someone cut the power to thwart them.

But in reality nothing will stop a determined thief/robber. Especially with all these high-tech gadgets to make their lives easier. Not to mention absconding with bitcoin or other crypto money computers:

"Thieves target large-scale crypto mining operations, stealing powerful ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) or GPU-based computers. In one instance in Grant County, Indiana, approximately $700,000 worth of Bitcoin mining machines were stolen and later recovered in an undercover operation."

But the 600 stolen in Iceland in 2018 were never recovered - they arrested the thieves, but they had apparently passed the machines on to whoever hired them - they sit out there somewhere churning out perhaps billions in crypto-currrency...now that's a theft!

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