Wild guess: A handheld EMP generator. You can make them out of a battery and an ignition coil.
Nope. That would turn off nearby Android devices and laptops as well.
High school student allegedly uses device to turn off nearby iPhones
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#22I liked the first comment there:
> "According to an APS statement, 'by turning off those teenagers' phones, the student created a dangerous environment in which students might actually have been able to learn something instead of staring at their phones all day. We're just not equipped to handle that kind of thing, so we called the police instead.'"
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#23It's probably a flipper zero. There is a Bluetooth iOS spamming script which can cause the devices to freeze or crash.
Supposedly the most recent updates stop that.
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#24It's probably a flipper zero. There is a Bluetooth iOS spamming script which can cause the devices to freeze or crash.
Wow, what a funky little device! Thanks for the lead, I might have to pick up one of these things. It looks good for hack ing but is it hack able itself? An exposed JTAG port would have this thing shipping to my home right now.
Picked one up for Christmas and have already been having a blast with it today. Yes, it is supremely hackable, try awesome-flipperzero [1] as a starting point. The iOS exploit discussed here is already patched as of a week or two ago, fwiw.
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#25Probably someone tired of the blue and green bubble BS on iPhones.
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#26Ah yes, classic case of someone being arrested for the crime of doing something the police think only they should be allowed to do.
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#27I liked the first comment there: > "According to an APS statement, 'by turning off those teenagers' phones, the student created a dangerous environment in which students might actually have been able to learn something instead of staring at their phones all day. We're just not equipped to handle that kind of thing, so we called the police instead.'"
Those darn kids and their phones! Keep it down! I’m tryna watch some tv here!
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#28"Victims" really.
Re: High school student allegedly uses device to turn off nearby iPhones
#29It's probably a flipper zero. There is a Bluetooth iOS spamming script which can cause the devices to freeze or crash.
Wow, what a funky little device! Thanks for the lead, I might have to pick up one of these things. It looks good for hack ing but is it hack able itself? An exposed JTAG port would have this thing shipping to my home right now.
> It looks good for hacking but is it hackable itself?
Yes. The firmware is open-source and can be reflashed over USB, and SWD is exposed on the socket on the top of the device.