Katakana lettering, pixel art, retro-design...is this thing aimed at the "We're anonymous" - "Mr Robot" - "Jack Rhysider" l33t HAx0r type of "hacker"? Or is there actually anything clever about it besides the design?
Flipper Zero – Portable Multi-Tool Device for Geeks
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#262I have a passing interest in wireless hacking but I have no idea if I have the skillset to make any use of it. How useful is this for someone with zero pen testing and/or wireless experience? I'm curious to know what it would take to hack my garage door or key fob for my car
Let's not fool ourselves into thinking that more than 1% of buyers will use this for anything else than changing channels on TVs displayed at Walmart, and feel like Mr Robot for a few minutes.
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#263Would something like this be a good way for a beginner to get into hardware hacking, or is it more for intermediate-advanced level hackers?
Flipper zero is more aimed at wireless hacking. Which is very cool, it's a fairly unexplored area of hacking (due to traditionally high barrier of entry), but is a subset of "hardware hacking". For general hardware hacking I'd get a pirate bus ($30), and a saelae logic clone (cheap). Maybe a nice cheap oscilloscope (but they go for $300+), but logic clone can get you mostly there.
How though when any interesting wireless target uses encryption?
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#264Cool piece of hardware, however their software TX lock is bullshit. They didn't claim development platform exemption with the fcc like with a hackrf, ettus, etc. Users are forced to use custom firmware to unlock the full potential of the hardware. The support person astra on their web forums goes around telling people its illegal to discuss things involving TX'ing and capturing rolling codes of a keyfob. I can't tell…
So this is a device for the Mr Robot crowd as I suspected.
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#265Popular security researchers have claimed that the Flipper Zero website is a honeypot site.
What exact 'popular security researchers'? Press X for doubt. It's open source and it was started on Kickstarter before even having a website.
Unless somebody disassembles it and reverse engineers all embedded code, we can't be sure this is not a Trojan horse from Russia. Wouldn't put it past them.
Definitely not something I'd import into my country.
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#266Earlier quoted context omitted.
Probably not easy taking orders on a Russian website from the US right now?
The company was established in the US since at least 2019, so this is not an issue. They ship out of Hong Kong.
Does that mean this is legal to buy in the us, considering the sanctions against russia for the ukraine war? I want to buy one, but the legal status seems unclear to me.
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#267Only thing I’d care about is if it could operate like the loop card wallet thing that Samsung bought and then killed. Applepay is great but still isn’t accepted at Walmart and Krogers owned stores (among others) would love to have a little device like this that holds all my cards.
They didnt kill it, they rolled it into Samsung Pay