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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.
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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.
Q: Why do rightwing websites keep getting hacked?
A: Because none of the best infosec people want to work where their friends wouldn't be welcome.
> TL;DR: We've allocated resources to maintain Flipper Zero firmware and support community contributions. Is that the tldr? It sure sounds like it's still on minimal life support.
Why can't something be "done"?
Worrying about firmware development resources for a Flipper Zero seems a bit like concentrating on your bios instead of ongoing updates to Linux and the applications you use. Yeah, it's important, but it's probably exceedingly rare for the firmware here to need to change much.
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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.
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It’s definitely a meme if nothing else that the cybersecurity community has a distribution of furries that would not reflect the general population’s.
Is there some study to explain why? Do they feel more safer pretending to be human sized...furry animal?
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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…
And sometimes not even then! Which is fine because indeed, who cares :)
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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?