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Inside the Underground Trade of ‘Flipper Zero’ Tech to Break into Cars (www.404media.co)
submitted 3 days ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The tech used here is the popular Flipper Zero, an ethical hacker’s swiss army knife, capable of all sorts of things such as WiFi attacks or emulating NFC tags. Now, 404 Media has found an underground trade where much shadier hackers sell extra software and patches for the Flipper Zero to unlock all manner of cars, including models popular in the U.S. The hackers say the tool can be used against Ford, Audi, Volkswagen, Subaru, Hyundai, Kia, and several other brands, including sometimes dozens of specific vehicle models, with no easy fix from car manufacturers.

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[–] int32@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

And ethical hacking and law-abiding hacking aren't the same either

I prefer saying 'grey hat' instead of 'ethical hacker' because ethical hacker is now used to mean 'pentester', 'red teamer' and all the other cybersecurity stuff, or so it seems to me.

that was the entire meaning of my comment, I clearly didn't make it clear enough.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

All of that is under the umbrella term of ethical hacker. Black/grey/white hat are some very outdated and unclear terms, and also terms that non-tech people don't really understand.

Ethical hacker is a term that lay people also understand and because of that it has replaced the rest of these terms.

(And also, "ethical hacker" encompasses both the grey and white hat. So it's not an equivalent term to "grey hat".)