On: Want to Steal a Tesla? Try Using a Flipper Zero

[hyperific]

Misconstruing/misrepresenting what the Flipper Zero can do is very in vogue right now.

[ThrowawayTestr → hyperific]

The article doesn't misconstrue, but it also fails to mention that the attack can be done with any computer with a wifi chip. Not that surprising for a rag like Gizmodo.

Edit: they do mention that at the very end of the article

[bdavbdav → ThrowawayTestr]

It kind of does in my view. The flipper has no WiFi. It’s just a dumb controller of some esp device. You could have the esp do it alone.

[datameta → hyperific]

>The issue isn’t “hacking” in the sense of breaking into software, it’s a social engineering attack that fools a user into handing over their information.

Very much so.

[ImpostorKeanu → hyperific]

Agreed. Just clickbait garbage.