Canada’s Flipper Zero ban: once again, politicians show they know nothing about technology

Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans
Published in
4 min readFeb 11, 2024

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IMAGE: A capture of the home page of Flipper Zero, a multi-tool hacking device for geeks
IMAGE: Flipper Zero

Following the lead of countries like Brazil and platforms such as Amazon, now Canada has banned the Flipper Zero, a multi-functional digital device that has generated fascination and controversy in the tech world. This decision, driven by concerns related to car security, garage doors and hacking in general, raises fundamental questions…

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Enrique Dans
Enrique Dans

Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger (in English here and in Spanish at enriquedans.com)