"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."
"On Thursday, the Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada agency said it will 'pursue all avenues to ban devices used to steal vehicles by copying the wireless signals for remote keyless entry, such as the Flipper Zero."
Wait. So radio communications from remote keyless entry devices are not encrypted? You can just record a radio communication and play it back and it will unlock a car?
"The Flipper Zero is also incapable of defeating keyless systems that rely on rolling codes, a protection that's been in place since the 1990s that essentially transmits a different electronic key signal each time a key is pressed to lock or unlock a door."
Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No 1 in car-theft crackdown
