> Multiple people in Brazil who purchased the Flipper Zero hacking tool have reported that their shipments are being redirected to Brazil's telecommunications agency, Anatel, due to a lack of certification with the country's Radio Frequencies department.
> Because Flipper Devices INC is not certified in Brazil according to this standard, it's not allowed to circulate freely in the Brazilian market.
Makes sense, devices have to be properly certified, if they are not, they're illegal. Seems like it has nothing to do with the "hacking" abilities of the device.
Truth is, the device is not certified so the authorities are confiscating them. Makes more sense than some "aristocracy" conspiracy.
> Anatel's certification area informs that the equipment called FLIPPER ZERO has been used in the country by malicious users in facilitating a crime or criminal misdemeanor and, as provided for in item II of Art. 60 of the Regulation for Conformity Assessment and Homologation of Telecommunications Products (annex to Resolution No. 715, of October 23, 2019), Anatel has rejected all homologation requests for the product in question, in order to collaborate in the protection of Brazilian citizens against criminal actions.
Those 433mhz gate remotes/receivers tend to have very little in the way real security. Not even rolling codes but just transmitting the same code every time is still very common.
And in an extremely socially striated country like Brazil, the ruling class using bureaucracy against their common fears isn't a 'conspiracy' any more than, like, the whole of society is.
I am just linking the first one I found. There are more advanced and expensive cloning devices [2] that can clone anything.
[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Keysy-RFID-Duplicator-keycards-keyfob...
In theory the best course of actions is to issue mandates that infrastructure gets fixed while the stem of tools to hack said infrastructure is reduced for some time.