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Deeplinks Blog by Bill Budington, Alexis Hancock | March 28, 2024

Restricting Flipper is a Zero Accountability Approach to Security: Canadian Government Response to Car Hacking

On February 8, François-Philippe Champagne, the Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced Canada would ban devices used in keyless car theft. The only device mentioned by name was the Flipper Zero—the multitool device that can be used to test, explore, and debug different wireless...

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Deeplinks Blog by Bill Budington, Veridiana Alimonti | March 9, 2023

Flipper Zero Devices Being Seized by Brazil’s Telecom Agency

You may have heard of the Flipper Zero. It’s marketed as a “Portable Multi-tool Device for Geeks”—a programmable portable device packed with hardware that facilitates wireless penetration testing and hacking on the go. The device, which greets its owner with an adorable cyber-dolphin on its monochrome 128x64 pixel screen,...

Deeplinks Blog by Parker Higgins, Ranga Krishnan | October 7, 2014

DEFCON Router Hacking Contest Reveals 15 Major Vulnerabilities

"I could take down the internet with that, and so could you."
Dan Geer, Chief Information Security Officer of CIA’s venture capital arm, didn't mince words when he mentioned the security flaws in home routers during his keynote address at last month's Black Hat conference in Las Vegas....

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