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Re: Trying Out Flipper Zero

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Honestly, this devices just misses a speaker and a microphone. It would make for the best phone ever.

The flipper zero does have a (pcm?) speaker! It comes with a music player by default with the marble machine sample notes.

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#84

Tee product quality of the Flipper Zero, including the packaging and the unboxing experience, is incredible. I just got mine a couple of weeks ago and have used it every day. I've done things ranging from analyzing and emulating at the hotel keys at the NY hotel I stayed in the week of the 19th, to turning off the TV sets in the airport lounge on the way back home.

Imo the ancesotor - Girl IM-ME had much better ergonomics https://hackaday.com/2015/06/08/hacking-the-im-me-to-open-ga...

Re: Trying Out Flipper Zero

#87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For instance, car keys.

I'm confused about the "for no reason" part then. I get a lot of value from not having to physically approach my car and use a key to unlock or start it.

Just to steel man the argument, I think what the parent might mean is that when you move from something that used to be physical security only (a regular key) to something that is now both physical and over radio, or worst case radio only, you are introducing a new medium and because of that you're also introducing a lot of new attack vectors and vulnerabilities.

Presumably the argument is that the benefits you get from this new medium being introduced (being able to unlock your car from a distance) can be argued to not be useful enough to warrant the new issues it brings along with it (verifying the authenticity of the transmission, avoiding jamming, etc.), and one can argue that the Flipper Zero is shining a light on these issues in a new way: they have always been there as fundamental parts of the choice of the radio medium, but they are now easier to exploit.

Re: Trying Out Flipper Zero

#88

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1609137698404700161.html

Very useful service, thank you. I try not to harbor negative feelings for something as harmless as a writing format, but I can't help but to feel a glimmer of annoyance every time I see one of these Twitter blog posts.
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