• no banana@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I see how that might make sense to lawmakers. It does present itself as a problem. But the fact that it is a symptom of a security issue is the reason it shouldn’t be outright banned. I haven’t used the thing, but it has looked to me like a pretty snazzy multitool.

    It’s like banning swiss army knives. I can see why it looks like it makes sense, but it really doesn’t.

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      9 months ago

      It reminds me of a lawmaker in one of the flyover states that wanted to make it illegal to look at the source code of a website.

      Think about this for a second.

      And realize that this twat is writing laws.

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          No, it was a few years back when a researcher found that there was a plain text file of county employee social security numbers just sitting inside the JavaScript of a government website.

          There are too many Google results from the upcoming election for me to sort through but suffice it to say, the guy was a class A idiot.

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          I don’t think so, but it was in response to some smart people developing their government website with the database stored basically in the HTML of the website if I remember correctly. A good Samaritan reported it and was basically charged with hacking the state.

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            9 months ago

            The problem with this is that reading the generated HTML behind a page that has been served to your browser does not prove that data was stored in an HTML source file. The data is inserted into the page while it’s being served to the browser. That’s what the JavaScript does after it requests the data from the backend code, which gets the data from the database (or whatever storage is being used) and sends it back to the JavaScript, which puts it in the page.

            Saving data in source HTML files would mean every possible combination of data anyone might request must be saved in its own separate file, which is definitely not how web development is done. Laws should not be made by people who don’t know what they’re talking about.

          • Mario_Dies.wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            9 months ago

            A good Samaritan reported it and was basically charged with hacking the state

            Wait, really? What would I search to read more about this? Do you remember which state?

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          9 months ago

          Happened around 2021-10-15:

          Missouri Gov. Mike Parson said that his administration is pursuing the prosecution of a local newspaper reporter who alerted the government to website security flaws.

          It’s in the following sources, at least: TechCrunch, NPR, NY Times

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          9 months ago

          What’s wrong with that “a series of tubes” speech? It seems pretty accurate to bandwidth

          Edit: Searched it up. The part that was wrong was him blaming email delays on bandwidth.

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      9 months ago

      It’s like banning swiss army knives

      That’s why we went forth and banned everything swiss, army, or knive, altogether

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      9 months ago

      I’ve been watching flipper since it was announced. I should probably buy one and play with it.

      All this is going to do is increase sales of the thing and probably increase the number of “kids” trying to break into cars. Streisand effect ftw.

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        9 months ago

        I have one.

        Its fun.

        But on the subject of rolling codes, I was able to get through a security gate that relies on, essentially, a garage door opener.

        The exploit relied on the ridiculously low amount of rolling codes it cycled through.

        Capture one, and try it a few times to get through.

        Cars are more robust. Despite tinkering with it for about 8 hours, I wasn’t successful with defeating it. That being said, I picked up the device, in part, to start messing around with various signals as an educational tool.

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      The real problem is Flipper Zero is just a nicely packaged tool that can also br easily assembled with other off the shelf parts. And those parts alone can do many other things that should not be made illegal. The real solution should be from car manufacturers and ensuring that they don’t use tech that can be so easily hacked.