Flipper Wants Root on Confusion

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A rugged black-and-orange handheld device labeled "PORTABLE LINUX COMPUTER" and "FLIPPER" is shown like a cyberpunk hardware console on a white blueprint background. Its amber monochrome screen shows status text "5G", time "13:37", battery "69%", and a speech bubble from a pixel-art mascot saying "I don't understand sh*t" followed by "Guys I need your help, let's build together !" with buttons labeled "ESC" and "HELP". The casing includes labels and indicators for "ETH0", "ETH1", "WI-FI", "LINK", "MIC", plus physical buttons and a faint bottom-right mark reading "flipperdevices" and "FLPR1_VER_ALPHA". The joke is developer-hardware absurdism: even a hacker-friendly Linux appliance ships with a UI that immediately asks the community to debug existence itself.

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick It has ETH0, ETH1, Wi-Fi, and still the most realistic interface is a modal asking the community to explain the requirements.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

It has ETH0, ETH1, Wi-Fi, and still the most realistic interface is a modal asking the community to explain the requirements.
Anonymous

The first honest boot splash: no binary blobs, just a dolphin asking the community to finish the drivers.
@ZmEYkA_3310 3mo

Are fr rn
@deimossos 3mo

Looks really hope, I sure hope it won't cost a shitload of money
1. @Protomax 3mo
  
  it will
@ZmEYkA_3310 3mo

Whatever happened to no ads zawg 😒
1. dev_meme 3mo
  
  Kk, you couldn’t BUY ads here
@ZmEYkA_3310 3mo

20% ai slop 😒
1. @Algoinde 3mo
  
  Every image in the article is hand-drawn and you think 20% blackbox random website detection on a text this large means slop? Are you real
  
  @ZmEYkA_3310 3mo
  
  Nah i read like the first few paragraphs and it radiated ai slop at me
  
  @ZmEYkA_3310 3mo
  
  You cant tell me that "Flipper One isn't an upgrade to Flipper Zero — it's a completely different project with its own goals." Doesnt sound like ai slop
  
  @Algoinde 3mo
  
  That sentence as a literary device doesn't mean anything by itself, it's only when the A in "It's not A - it's B" is pulled out the ass and makes you think "but nobody said anything about A, who the fuck thinks A". Here it makes complete sense, because it clarifies my question that the writer anticipates It could still be AI, of course, but the type of person to use AI for a post like this wouldn't use painstakingly drawn images for the article itself
  
  @Algoinde 3mo
  
  Having said that, it does make my eye twitch slightly
  
  @ZmEYkA_3310 3mo
  
  Zero mentions of flipper zero in that context btw 😒
2. @Protomax 3mo
  
  Zhovner isn't native to English so some level of Google/Deepl translate was probably used
@VentusTheSox 3mo

Fuck them Flippers are tools for assholes to fuck up people around them
1. @abra_mixabra 3mo
  
  fuck assholes assholes are fools who use tools to fuck up people around them
@VentusTheSox 3mo

You can use them to target individuals Someone was using a flipper to broadcast mass Bluetooth pair requests and crashing devices which shouldn't filter them out Someone at a furry convention had an insulin pump controller crash because of this and it could have caused them to go into diabetic shock
1. @Algoinde 3mo
  
  Someone was using a flipper to broadcast mass Bluetooth pair requests and crashing devices which shouldn't filter them out I can do that with an ESP32 board and don't need a funny gadget, the tool doesn't matter
2. @mutencath 3mo
  
  Is this a problem with a key or is it a problem with a lock?
3. @death_by_oom 3mo
  
  That's like being mad at kitchen knives because they can be used to kill people
  
  @VentusTheSox 3mo
  
  There is a difference because you can do all of that covertly. You could be doing that from tens of meters away with no indication it's you.
  
  @Algoinde 3mo
  
  Welcome to RF. It's how it works on a fundamental level.
  
  @death_by_oom 3mo
  
  So, it's not like flipper zero advertises itself as a insuline pump attack device. An ESP32 can do the same, is it bad too?
  
  @Protomax 3mo
  
  except you're literally glowing like a xmas tree on any RF detector (even a smartphone in your pocket)
4. @NickNirus 3mo
  
  be mad at the insulin pump controller manufacturer that makes money on selling the barest minimum device to people in need. not saying the guy with the flipper isn't an asshole, but, as others in the thread mentioned, it's like being mad at a hammer for being able to break legs with it
5. @Protomax 3mo
  
  Flipper out-the-box can't do anything seriously harmful - and any malicious action possible with flipper can be done cheaper with ESP32/M5Stack/Chameleon It's an expensive toy for script kiddos and useful tool for onsite tinkering and pentesting
6. @Sun_Serega 3mo
  
  huh, I have type 1 diabetes and it sounds very wrong to me (to be clear, I never used the pump, but I considered it many times and generally understand how it works) diabetic shock is low bloodsugar, which would happen if the pump injected too much insulin, not if it stopped working there are 2 types of injections, the trickle and the manual extra amount when you are planning to eat the first one is constant, so the pump controller not functioning wouldn't matter (also if it stopped, it would only become a real problem in a day or two) the second is basically instant, there is no way the controller was crashed in the middle of that (and if this doesn't work - they either needed an insulin pen, which they should have with them, or just not eat for a bit longer, which sucks but isn't life threatening) overall that sounds like a baseless rumour, which you only believe because you want to hate this thing personally I think hating a tool is stupid
  
  @Protomax 3mo
  
  I would imagine pump to stop working if it was deauthed (not disconnected) from connected device. Tho it's just a theory in my head. Don't have diabetes so idk how these smart pumps works
  
  @Sun_Serega 3mo
  
  ideally the hardware should be designed to continue the steady trickle of insulin even without any software running on it, but also ideally there shouldn't be such an easy way to crash the controller, so I'd not rely on that
  
  T 2mo
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_Low_Energy_denial_of_service_attacks#Interference_with_a_medical_device This article https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/wall-of-flippers-detects-flipper-zero-bluetooth-spam-attacks/ has a screenshot of the original tweet by the affected person (which has since been deleted)
@fromcy 3mo

Holy sh.. hard is hard respect
@Algoinde 3mo

I wonder if they'll actually have a community, feels like they're basically going "build the thing for us please", but idk. This will depend on the price heavily
@glatavento 3mo

so how much would it be?
@Protomax 3mo

Idk what to think about FOne - it's would be really expensive device (I would imagine $600-$800 if not more) with terrible built-in GUI (menu-based my ass) and too much things attached to it permanently at this point smth like a GPD device with linux dual-boot would be more handy?
1. @Algoinde 3mo
  
  because it has SDR, it could be well into $2000...
  
  @Protomax 3mo
  
  It doesn't promise SDR out-the-box - it's an m.2 module add-on' like wifi was for FZ
  
  @Algoinde 3mo
  
  oh, true. fat-eyed the article i guess then $500~$700 is reasonable
  
  @Protomax 3mo
  
  They have like 4-story office in central London, smh they would need to pay for it after FZ thicc margins are gone
@stef1k 3mo

ew, russians 🤮
1. @imfreetodowhatever 3mo
  
  flipper doo is ukrainian iirc
  
  @b7sum 3mo
  
  where'd you get that info from
@ddamiryh 3mo

Missed opportunity to call it Flopper Zero
@c0rium 2mo

flipper devs are from ruzzia and should not be sponsored by any circumstances
@c0rium 2mo

Odessa is occupied with ethnical russians, unfortunately moreover, war started at 2014, earlier than flipper zero invented
1. @pdsnrc 2mo
  
  are you suggesting they should be removed based on their ethnicity?
  
  @c0rium 2mo
  
  yes.
  
  @deimossos 2mo
  
  Nazi
  
  @c0rium 2mo
  
  as you wish
  
  @death_by_oom 2mo
  
  Well if you scroll through their pfps it starts making sense
  
  @c0rium 2mo
  
  lol aha
@deimossos 2mo

So you're hating on ethnicity or what? I don't see that they're supporting Russia
@c0rium 2mo

only way to survive if you live in east europe
@c0rium 2mo

but you can't understand the hate because you live in comfortable place
@c0rium 2mo

I remember MH-17, do you remember?
@c0rium 2mo

guys you better to get ready to ww3
@c0rium 2mo

instead of sponsoring ruzzian products
@c0rium 2mo

alabuga polytech - makes thousands of shahed drones 24/7/365
1. @deimossos 2mo
  
  And the company that has cut ties with Russia will sponsor them, surely
  
  @c0rium 2mo
  
  officialy they did
@c0rium 2mo

now they strikes Ukraine, tomorrow they will scale to strike Europe
@c0rium 2mo

can you prove it?
1. @deimossos 2mo
  
  Can you prove that every ethnical Russian supports actions of Putin?
  
  @c0rium 2mo
  
  yes, bc he rules 20+ years
  
  @deimossos 2mo
  
  Oh yeah, the elections weren't falsified, definetly
  
  @c0rium 2mo
  
  you all accepted it
  
  @deimossos 2mo
  
  Hahahahhahaha nice one
  
  @death_by_oom 2mo
  
  Read some books about dictatorships or something. Your maximalist ideology fits a 13 yo, not a grows human
  
  @c0rium 2mo
  
  lol what
  
  @death_by_oom 2mo
  
  I am very happy for you that you like your countries leadership. Not all of us can say the same. The idea that you can end any dictatorship by boycott is absurd, look at Belarus for an example of a revolution that was supported by the majority and still failed.
  
  @c0rium 2mo
  
  we don't like our leadership, that's the point
  
  @death_by_oom 2mo
  
  What's your fucking point then?
  
  @deimossos 2mo
  
  Trolling probably. Idk how people can be that retarded
  
  @death_by_oom 2mo
  
  I would ban them for racism at this point tbh
  
  @c0rium 2mo
  
  meh you are using arch
  
  @c0rium 2mo
  
  dude, we made a successful revolution while other countries like georgia or belarus failed to do it
  
  @c0rium 2mo
  
  even if our president is fucking moron
  
  @c0rium 2mo
  
  it's just doesn't matter
  
  @death_by_oom 2mo
  
  Good for you
@c0rium 2mo

people that invented scam device could not leave the sphere
@c0rium 2mo

isn't a good proof?
1. @death_by_oom 2mo
  
  Nope
@c0rium 2mo

no boycot
@c0rium 2mo

only RDK did it
@c0rium 2mo

we are different
@c0rium 2mo

you are retard
@c0rium 2mo

ok guys donate for dripper zero
@c0rium 2mo

idk how to call it

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