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Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

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Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

#121

I know this is nitpicky but the logo on your blog should be linked to your home page, not back to the blog. The purpose of the blog is to promote your company/product. When I visit your blog, I am now curious about what your product/service is. I expect to be able to click on the logo and find out about your company/product/service. Linking the logo back to the blog itself is a missed opportunity to increase sales/ma…

Not nitpicky at all. Might be worth tens of thousands of dollars. Might be worth 10x that.

I don't know how many times I've had the exact same experience and thought the same thing.

Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

#122

I know this is nitpicky but the logo on your blog should be linked to your home page, not back to the blog. The purpose of the blog is to promote your company/product. When I visit your blog, I am now curious about what your product/service is. I expect to be able to click on the logo and find out about your company/product/service. Linking the logo back to the blog itself is a missed opportunity to increase sales/ma…

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Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

#123
I admit to mostly having bought mine to have an Amiibo emulator with a screen and a menu that I can pick things from, and it performs this function admirably. I tried to use it to clone a hotel room key but its emulation was unsuccessful at unlocking the door. There is a LOT of functionality available in the hardware that isn't yet fully exploited by the firmware, and development is proceeding at a rapid clip, so I expect the device to only get more interesting as time goes on.

Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

#124

One thing I'd love to do with this, but which I don't think is possible - clone my car key. My family has two cars and I just wish I could have one device that is able to unlock & start both of them so that I don't have to carry two bulky dongles on my keychain.

The Flipper can unlock some cars, and the hardware has support for rolling codes, but as I understand it, the standard firmware deliberately does not enable this functionality to discourage abuse. Several people on the Discord have managed to unlock their cars once or twice, and inadvertently desync their cars from all of their key fobs in the process, leaving them with no devices that can unlock their car.

Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

#125
post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This page? [0] Seems pretty extensive. IF you just clicked on the upper left Flipper image you're still in the blog page which isn't going to be the full sales pitch. The main page has their initial sales blurb: > "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…

That's the point - the statement you quoted is very uninformative, and a strong example of bad, unclear communication. It literally does not say anything about what it is what it does, what capabilities it offers.

That statement is essentially "It's a multitool for this target audience of users. It's really good for everything they want to do." - without giving any information about what that "everything" is. It does not provide an example use case - "hacking digital stuff such as radio protocols, access control systems, hardware" is not an use case but just an application domain, but an example use case would be some hint of how this tool would be actually applied to help someone do a security analysis of some radio protocol for an access control system.

Why not say something roughly like

"Flipper Zero is a portable multi-tool that includes transceivers for arbitrary interactions with most popular wireless systems - RFID, NFC, BluetoothLE, infrared and sub-1 Ghz wireless devices. It allows you to run custom exploit or analysis code for these protocols interactively from a convenient small hardware device." ?

That would actually tell a potential radio hardware hacker about its capabilities and limitations; e.g. the original description could just as well be said about the hackRF SDR system, which is substantially different piece of hardware but aimed at a similar audience.

Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

#126
post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This page? [0] Seems pretty extensive. IF you just clicked on the upper left Flipper image you're still in the blog page which isn't going to be the full sales pitch. The main page has their initial sales blurb: > "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…

That's the point - the statement you quoted is very uninformative, and a strong example of bad, unclear communication. It literally does not say anything about what it is what it does, what capabilities it offers. That statement is essentially "It's a multitool for this target audience of users. It's really good for everything they want to do." - without giving any information about what that "everything" is. It does…

Luckily the main page continues on past that if you scroll down and tells you about the modules included and things that use the frequencies those modules speak.

Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

#127

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.

I had to go to kickstarter's project page to understand what it is

Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

#128
post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's the point - the statement you quoted is very uninformative, and a strong example of bad, unclear communication. It literally does not say anything about what it is what it does, what capabilities it offers. That statement is essentially "It's a multitool for this target audience of users. It's really good for everything they want to do." - without giving any information about what that "everything" is. It does…

Luckily the main page continues on past that if you scroll down and tells you about the modules included and things that use the frequencies those modules speak.

That first page should provide enough information 'above the fold' to decide if it's worth scrolling down. Currently it does not.

Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

#129
post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Luckily the main page continues on past that if you scroll down and tells you about the modules included and things that use the frequencies those modules speak.

That first page should provide enough information 'above the fold' to decide if it's worth scrolling down. Currently it does not.

If you're not curious enough to read past a few lines of content, you're not really the target to be honest.

Pentesting (or hacking in any sense of the term) often involves spending a lot of time researching and learning about things, typically heading onto paths where you don't know where you will end up.

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