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The future of Flipper Zero development

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Re: The future of Flipper Zero development

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Post by pocksuppet »

nekusar wrote: post #33
rufo wrote: post #15

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Given they’ve had several skirmishes with customs and law enforcement agencies around the world, this always struck me as similar to the “don’t talk about installing retail Switch games on the Switch modding Discord” type of deal - everyone knows you can do that, but allowing mentions in official channels opens us to liability and causes nothing but headaches for both us and for customers, so if you’re going to do th…

Its one thing to have a skid come in going "I wanna hack the RFID on the gubbmints's doors how can i do that?" Versus "we forked the firmware to include a wide range of pentesting tools" And then get banned for even saying the alternate firmware. And seriously, this little thing is a wonderful hacker multitool. You can seriously fuck shit up with the hardware they included. For fucks sake, thats WHY they created it.

That's how you have to be on Discord, or else your guild gets banned from Discord. I wish we weren't using this crap. On IRC, sometimes you had to deal with cranky netops, but they mostly left you alone.

Re: The future of Flipper Zero development

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Post by CursedSilicon »

doublerabbit wrote: post #54
dude250711 wrote: post #47

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> Is the Flipper Zero community tightly intertwined with the furry community? That is my conclusion. They are raising much-needed awareness about that underrepresented group.

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Re: The future of Flipper Zero development

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Post by CursedSilicon »

hosel wrote: post #46
iririririr wrote: post #44

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what does it matter to you? honest question. would that impact your technical assessment somehow? do you just want in on some probable joke?

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Ah, the "I don't hate the gays I just wish they'd keep that at home!"

Re: The future of Flipper Zero development

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Post by cybrexalpha »

kstrauser wrote: post #45
rebolek wrote: post #40

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Is there some study to explain why? Do they feel more safer pretending to be human sized...furry animal?

My hypothesis, based purely on personal experience and what friends have told me. I am not a furry. I feel like infosec was one of the earliest "no one cares who you are if you have skills" user groups. Online, you were just a handle. Man, woman, both, neither, no one knew until if/when you met up IRL. Until then, all you had was your reputation. I think that led to people having a pretty good idea about the attitude…

The visibility is a huge part of it. It signals "it's okay to be yourself here" when most professional life, even in tech, is dominated by keeping up "professional" appearances.

Re: The future of Flipper Zero development

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Post by Rebelgecko »

mikepurvis wrote: post #13
natbennett wrote: post #2

Flipper Zero is one of the handiest little pieces of tech I’ve ever owned. Being able to copy RFID keys is occasionally fantastically useful.

Is... that possible? I thought the whole point is that those were a challenge-response specifically to avoid ever them disclosing over the air the material necessary to impersonate one.

Many RFID cards are literally just an ID number, and will happily allow you to copy that number to your own RFID card (look up "blue cloner guns", although they have their own downsides). Basically just security through obscurity. Cards that do fancy crypto stuff exist, but odds are your workplace badge, apartment fob, or hotel room key is the simple kind (because those are cheaper)
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