What Is The Flipper Zero? Why You Might Not Need One.

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[amtrak]

Way to stay in the center of the the issues here! Tech is not inherently good or bad. It's what the user is doing with it. Reverse engineering is what makes better future engineers. Cheers and 73!

[TangoOscarMikeNWS]

These types of devices are good because they highlight vulnerabilities in other devices, which should make manufacturers improve security in the long run.

[HeavensProtocol]

KM6ARC 43 years old and found a flipper zero. I got the wifi module to learn some more stuff. Glad there's a ham presence with these cool modern uses of spectrum.

[allhailwaldo]

I got my flipper zero, quite easily, got shipped in a week. I found a morse code feature which would be great for someone learning cw. We found the music player feature and play some music occasionally. Obviously it sounds horrible but it's fun to mess with. I do have almost all the ir remotes for our multiple TVs programmed. I even went to the club site and showed the club president the cool device, and he liked it. The community behind it is pretty cool with all the codes you can download from internet. It's a fun little toy to have and play around with. I would recommend picking one up if you can.

[scottchristofersen]

I love my flipper. Sure mostly what I use it for functionally I could do with other devices… but it’s fun.

[DetroitYugo]

Love mine. It's just another multitool in my ever-expanding tool kit - built to do just what it does, but with a little tinkering, can do so much more.

[jasonjenkins-ferris]

Great vid hosh! love the way you laid out it's capabilities, legalities, and what it can't do.

[amateursandairwaves]

Great primer/explanation on the capabilities of this fun device! Having lots of fun with mine.

[KanoaDeCastro]

I've always been interested in reverse engineering things. Mainly mechanical things because I don't need a bunch of meters and oscilliscopes to understand it. I actually am into radios and such, so I am curious about reverse engineering them. I may get a flipper some day.

[bowlsallbroken]

The beauty of it is like the beauty of a Leatherman. Carrying a Proxmark, Rubberducky, universal remote, HackRF One, and Arduino with power supply separately is heavy and inconvenient, that's why I have one. People paying a Grand for one have no idea what it even does, which is pretty hysterical.

[jtlerch]

Been having a blast with my Flipper Zero. The GPIO function exposes some amazing functionality. I have used the Sentry Safe bypass and it works flawlessly. This device has rekindled my interest in hardware/software interfaces. I hooked up an RSP32 and been playing with it. Put Marauder on one for Wifi stuff and now playing with some other possibilities. I have some NRF24 modules coming so I can play with some of the 2.4ghz stuff. These are a lot of fun if you are into that sort of thing.

All that being said be sure to use caution with these. It is possible to accidently interfere with essential equipment like medical devices. While the FCC may not be chasing every fool that misbehaves with a Baofeng I don't think you will get the same level of disinterest if you start changing the price of unleaded on the gas station sign. Have fun but stay legal folks.

[firereaperd]

One thing that I find very useful is testing RFID/NFC blockers actually work. Many wallets and card holders advertise that they protect you from being scanned but a device like this allows you to test and confirm it is doing the job. Taking this a bit farther, you can copy all your cards that have RFID/NFC data and leave your wallet at home, use your flipper for replay only when needed, you cannot scan what is not there. On the other hand, this leaves you open to physical theft since the flipper will have all your data. Pick your poison.

[atruerock]

Man what a way to describe the nail, position, and hammer of what people see, expect, and receive. This device isn't a Swiss army knife for any electronics hacking wireless transmissions. Instead It's used for simplifying life in one area for developers or maybe some consumers. Letting new programmers have an easy for program developing using the on board features. As well as expanding the capability of sensors, chip programming, and other diy devices to be programmed or utilized in a small form factor. The forgotten part of the device though is much simpler than It's capabilities. In the field of private security development, you can program this device with many different attack methods to attack your specific security device protocol. Whether it be Wi-Fi, RFID, NFC, WPS, IR, Photocentric (photodiodes, photoresistors, phototransistors, and photovoltaic light sensors), Thermal sensors, and ANY OTHER DEVICE/SENSOR YOU CONNECT. This device is similar to math. You solve for an equation and the device lets you prove your solution. The equation being a security risk and the solution being, well- the solution. Then proven against multiple attacking methods developed by you and the public to test the solved equation.

[JD-gndu]

The black cased version was from the folks that contributed to the kickstarter. In the consumer market you’ll mostly find the white cased version.

[joshuaizly]

I should get myself one for the nostalgia
I have a casio watch that has a universal tv remote, it doesn't work with any tv build after 2005-ish but when I was 13 years old I would start the tv in my classroom any chance I'll get, no one ever told the teachers and it made me popular for an entire week.

[LukasDzunko]

@10:50 ... there is still a lot of garage doors, access doors, etc. with fix code ... therefore device like this is handy to demonstrate it and prove that upgrade to rolling code system is reasonable request.

[neriozulberti]

I’ve ordered mine yesterday and i think that is the most awesome thing i ever seen, one word opensource 😊MacGiver of nerds

[bairfreedom]

I'm a trouble shooter and I think it would be cool to keep all my stuff on one of these to use like keys etc. There is a model of car, mabe more than one, that if the fob dies, there is an RFID chip in the fob that will allow you to start the car by placing the fob up to the start button or somewhere on the dash area etc. that would technically not use a code. It would use the RFID tag in the dash which cannot be rolling because the fobs battery is technically dead. The only way I could see that it is keeping up with the rolling part is if that little boost of electricity that the fob uses from the cars RFID reader magnetic field keeps it is sync. I do not think it does. I grabbed the wrong set of keys one day and was able to start my car with a dead fob that has no battery that has been sitting in a drawer for over a year. So use the flipper to copy the RFID tag INSTEAD of emulating the fob signal. Bam! your driving your car with the flipper. The door unlock signal on the other hand is the part I believe that gets people into trouble with bricking their fobs. Lol

[esv]

Nice Lucha! I EDC mine with my flipper too.

[rithysann]

Hi bought one for my delivery packages at the apartments every every useful makes my job 100 times easier!!