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Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

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post #76

The dolphin reminds me of the one from that movie with Keanu where they are constantly doing a bunch of cheesy mind hacking!

Johnny Mnemonic from the Burning Chrome short story collection by Gibson. A staple of the cyberpunk bookshelf from the late 80s, and yes a very cheesy Keanu film...

Thats it ! Great film. And strangely became even more relevant recently.

Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

#102

Been loving mine. Cloned my work and local makerspace ID cards, can control all my IR devices and even read the rfid chip I got in my hand. Here is a collection of some of the bigger projects being built for it. https://github.com/djsime1/awesome-flipperzero

This post was the first thing I found that explained what it does. I literally thought this was some kind of open source Tamagotchi.

Here's a description: https://flipperzero.one/ - it's a multitool for various wireless, IR and RFID (including 125 kHz) protocols, has GPIOs and contacts for certain electronic keys. And apparently also a tamagotchi.

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#103

Can these clone passive RFID dongles? My building uses them and they charge $60 for a copy. Not needing to buy a copy from my building would almost cover the cost of this device.

Some. A well designed key card will be uncloneable.

Most are not well designed.

Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

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post #96

Not something I'd ever buy that I'm glad it exists. It's just so charming. They even went the extra mile to use Qt for the client instead of Electron.

My next app will be C++/Qt compiled to Javascript with Emscripten and then run inside Electron.

(Incidentally, someone made a Dear Imgui demo this way: https://jnmaloney.github.io/WebGui/imgui.html, minus involving Electron, of course.)

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#105
Okay, let's talk about the Russian connection. I don't actually know that much, so I'm hoping someone here can shine some light. Back when this thing came up for crowdfunding, it felt like a good time to get a toy that was engineered in Russia, made in China, sold everywhere. Now it feels like less of a good idea.

I'm not well equipped to sandbox the PC app and watch its behavior or whatever (and I have no reason to suspect the dev is personally a bad guy), but even something as simple as the shipping list of everyone who bought this, is basically a who's-who of security researchers the world over. Since we've already seen attacks that tried to compromise security researchers, I figure this isn't hypothetical anymore. It was North Korea last time:

https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/new-campaign-targe...

Thoughts?

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#106

I received mine recently, and I’ve been consistently impressed at both the build quality and overall attention to detail. I know many Kickstarter projects (and hardware startups in general) end up aggressively compromising on features and construction to meet deadlines and cut down on BOM costs, so I was very pleased to see no evidence of that with the Flipper Zero. It’s one of those products where you can immediatel…

I wanted to know what a Fipper was. I went to the website's hope page. It never told me what a flipper is. I walk away not knowing what a Flipper is. What a waste of my time. Their website home page is a failure.

Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

#107

Okay, let's talk about the Russian connection. I don't actually know that much, so I'm hoping someone here can shine some light. Back when this thing came up for crowdfunding, it felt like a good time to get a toy that was engineered in Russia, made in China, sold everywhere. Now it feels like less of a good idea. I'm not well equipped to sandbox the PC app and watch its behavior or whatever (and I have no reason to…

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Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

#108

I received mine recently, and I’ve been consistently impressed at both the build quality and overall attention to detail. I know many Kickstarter projects (and hardware startups in general) end up aggressively compromising on features and construction to meet deadlines and cut down on BOM costs, so I was very pleased to see no evidence of that with the Flipper Zero. It’s one of those products where you can immediatel…

I wanted to know what a Fipper was. I went to the website's hope page. It never told me what a flipper is. I walk away not knowing what a Flipper is. What a waste of my time. Their website home page is a failure.

What?

Flipper Zero is a portable multi-tool for pentesters and geeks in a toy-like body. It loves hacking digital stuff, such as radio protocols, access control systems, hardware and more. It's fully open-source and customizable, so you can extend it in whatever way you like.

Third line on the page.

Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

#109

I received mine recently, and I’ve been consistently impressed at both the build quality and overall attention to detail. I know many Kickstarter projects (and hardware startups in general) end up aggressively compromising on features and construction to meet deadlines and cut down on BOM costs, so I was very pleased to see no evidence of that with the Flipper Zero. It’s one of those products where you can immediatel…

I wanted to know what a Fipper was. I went to the website's hope page. It never told me what a flipper is. I walk away not knowing what a Flipper is. What a waste of my time. Their website home page is a failure.

Blog entries are rarely good starting points for people new to the topic. Their main page gives a much better introduction: https://flipperzero.one/

Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

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post #4
post #3

Well, those projects they showed really make me want to buy one even though I have no real use case for it. Seems like it'd be fun for hack projects or pen testing RF devices. In a more meta sense, I really like this new trend of gadgets with a personality, so to speak - makes me think of that game console the "playdate".

Same. Play with my complex garage door ... well mhmmm, no idea what to do after that but I want one ^^

That use case was what got me to pre-order one over a year ago (currently in-transit, any day now!).

Replace my bulky, awful complex-provided fob with a dolphin with attitude? Yes please.

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