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Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

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Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

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ganoushoreilly wrote: post #66
Melatonic wrote: post #65

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

I guarantee that's by design, also the references to hackers "hack the planet" on the device etc. It's a love letter portable device that's very reminiscent of the various badges that have been at Defcon and other hacking conferences over the past few years. This brings a whole new level of polish and finish. They did an awesome job. Sadly though, I kick start a lot of stuff that doesn't end up being 50% of what's pr…

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Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

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Post by boneitis »

Melatonic wrote: post #101
evgen wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> The prototype of our character is the cyborg dolphin Jones from the story "Johnny Mnemonic" by William Gibson.

https://blog.flipperzero.one/story-contest/

Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

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Post by no_time »

jrockway wrote: post #104
no_time wrote: 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.)

That's like... the worst of both worlds? You get a worse dev experience compared to regular js and your users get a memory hog that makes their machines go whirrrr instead of a snappy, lightweight Qt program.

Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

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Post by comfydragon »

findalex wrote: post #63
samstave wrote: post #21

Is there ANY way to detect the presence of one of these devices, OR the use of a device when a tag ID is scanned? The reason that I ask, is that I was on the design team for lockheed when we were selling RFID tags for shipping containers at a shitload per pop... (123 and 433 mhz) and I brought up we had zero auth on any of our systems... and was just told to not speak about it.

Are these devices even technically legal to operate in the USA? I thought 433mhz was reserved for exactly what you say - tags for shipping containers. If you use a LoRa devices in the USA I think you are supposed to be >~850mhz.

In the US, at least the 433 and 915 MHz, and of course 2.4 GHz, bands are unlicensed and widely used by all sorts of commercial, industrial, and DIY electronics. All my wireless temperature sensors in my house are on the 433 MHz band, my natural gas meter speaks (ERT) on 915...

Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

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Post by skaalrod »

PeterisP wrote: post #125
rtkwe wrote: 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…

It’s vague on purpose.

Re: Quick Start Guide for Flipper Zero

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Post by Foozer »

skaalrod wrote: post #145
PeterisP wrote: post #125

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…

It’s vague on purpose.

Bingo.
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