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Bad news: US Customs have seized a container with 15k Flippers Zero

by aphroz on 10/3/22, 8:21 PM with 13 comments

• by sp332 on 10/3/22, 8:56 PM

  Let's have a look at the homepage... oh look, it's a Russian-based group. That's probably the exact same reason PayPal closed their account with $1.3 million. You'd think that would have got their attention but here we go again.

• by samstave on 10/3/22, 8:27 PM

  Im sure its based on the idea of them being used by bad-actors?

  Or the feds were like "LOOK I MADE THIS" and want them for themselves in a more insidious reasoning...? Thats ~$6 million they dont need to pull from their budget...

  Imagine how many boxes are going to "fall off the truck"

  FLIPPER Zero (company) hopefully doesnt have remote disable, except in cases like this... (meaning "the device must be registered with [DATABASE] before its activated. -- this is the double edge for devices of this class.)

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  Ill never forget my first meeting as Dir of IT for Lockheed where I was inquiring of frquency encryption/security across all military RFID tags... That was not a fun meeting.

• by sylware on 10/3/22, 9:14 PM

  wow, I am discovering this wonderfull little piece of hardware.

  The only thing which is not clear to me is how ez it is to customize the firmware, for instance a public git repo (okay, I just skimmed their web site quickly, lazy I was...).

  oh... it is russian... doh!

• by daniellel on 10/3/22, 8:26 PM

  oh no