How do you ban a device built with open source hardware and software anyway?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11789263

Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown

Other than the one wire connector and the IR, most phones have all the same hardware and much more compute power, there is nothing stopping a rooted phone from doing the same thing. The Flipper is just an easy UI on a cool form factor.

My S5 still works and has an IR blaster.

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