Has anyone played with the Flipper Zero? It’s a little electronic warfare / hacking device for your pocket reading and replicating all sorts of wireless signals from RFID, NFC to blue tooth, and regular old RF signals. Not sure what I need one for, but their social media ads convinced me I want one. Maybe I can disable every other bike on the starting grid with it and win my first MA race. https://flipperzero.one/
the hacker who was interviewed on the shawn ryan show last year carried one, and described what it did. like, capturing garage door signals from someone pressing their remote, so now you can open that garage door. sounds like the target audience for this device are people who want to get shot.
friend has one. If you have some ideas of what you are doing, you can go to a bar and brick everyone's phone (basically a bluetooth DOS attack). Well till they walk out of range or have the latest software updates installed (I think Apples latest update stops the Flipper attacks). they do some pretty crazy stuff but you have to have at least some knowledge of what you are doing with them and how to program them.
Well at a minimum, maybe I can cyber test my own stuff and see if my garage, phone, wallet et all are hackable. I’ll report back and let you know if I can hack my own stuff. I wonder if it will read the keyless system on my RS660… hmmmm.
My friend had one of those brick devices years ago before they were illegal. He is a total luddite, and when at a stoplight of a busy intersection he'd turn it on and watch all the drivers go nuts because their phones quit working. To this day he refuses to get a smartphone because "they can track everything I'm doing!"
my understanding is that it doesn't work on cars, and most garage doors these days have rolling codes so this won't work on those.. but things like RFID cards/badges to get into your building or hotel room are pretty easy to copy. I was going to get one to test some wireless control systems we use at work to check frequency and output and such but haven't gotten around to ordering one yet. But yes i you are in a public place and your phone totally stops responding, turn off bluetooth (or the phone) if you can. Basically it just sends thousands of bluetooth requests to your phone and your phone can't do anything else. No permanent damage or giving someone the ability to "get into your phone" but renders it useless until you are out of range of the device or turn off bluetooth. Probably a good idea to just turn off bluetooth outside of your car or home anyway.
I've long since arrived at the realization that I'm not interesting enough for "they" to expend any effort tracking anything I'm doing.
" They " track you for a lot of reasons. None of which are innocuous. Tracking can build a user profile that enables hacks or worse. At best, spam eats up time. I'll admit to changing thermostats and TV channels but be careful above that threshold as you can be tracked if you have other IPs or IDs that show up a lot around incidents.
You don't need to be interesting, everyone is tracked all of the time. If you become interesting they can go back and look at your saved information if they so desire.
At work we use a satellite to measure chlorine levels in ground soil up to 15ft deep. The cell phone is least of your problems if you’re working about tracking
Which just proves any crime can be solved pretty easily they just pick and choose which ones they want to
I wanted to make a copy of a keyfob to my mother’s condo. Dude advertised on fb marketplace. $10. Showed up and he used a flipper zero to copy the keyfob. 20 seconds.
