Can someone please explain to me what’s the point of Flipper Zero? In what way is it capable to do anything Android phones with custom software aren’t?
It’s a toy for people who are interested in hacking/pentesting. Sure, you can do everything it does with a phone, but without the toy like aspects.
Tbh you can do literally everything that a PC can with a phone. Doesn’t mean that a phone is the most fun to use for whatever you’re trying to use it for.
Wait… a cell phone can clone, erase, and reprint an rfid chip?
It has hardware that most cell phones don’t have.
Sub-ghz
"allowing it to receive and send radio frequencies between 300 and 928 MHz. These switches, radio locks, wireless doorbells, remote controls, barriers, gates, smart lighting, "RFID
" including plastic cards, key fobs, tags, wristbands, and animal microchips."Infrared
" that use infrared light (IR) such as TVs, air conditioners, or audio devices. It can learn and save infrared remote controls or use its own Universal remotes"It also has an iButton reader.
Isn’t RFID compatible with NFC antennas? There’s plenty of apps on F-Droid to interact with RFID tags using NFC.
Same thing for IRDA, some manufacturers still do include it in their devices.
RFID compatible with NFC antennas
Only the HF RFID stuff. There is also LF and UHF RFID. FZ has an LF RFID antenna.
“NFC tags are a subcategory of HF RFID technology. All NFC tags are HF RFID tags, but not all HF RFID tags are NFC tags. NFC operates in a very specific subset of the high-frequency range —13.56 MHz— and have very different use cases and implementation considerations from other RFID categories”
https://www.resourcelabel.com/resources/comparing-different-types-of-rfid-tags/Same thing for IRDA
IrDA isn’t the same as IR. There were some phones with an actual IR blaster built in but most were IrDA.
Light on details, but would be interesting to see what range of devices and OS versions this works against. Should be easy enough to ban devices that are spamming automatically as a counter measure.
You should get one and find out. I love mine.
what do people actually use them to do?
I’ve used it around the house to make copies of the light switches (they are small battery operated radios.)
I’ve also used it to clone my car fab as a backup.
I’ve found out what my neighbors are doing that is radio controlled. Some times I just scan for packets and try and decrypt them.
I’ve used it to get the full metadata on my pets RFID tags. I now have full records for all my pets.
I’ve used it in a gimmicky way to get my credit card information, and I’ve considered using it for payment, but havent’ tried yet.
Honestly, its a great tool to have. Its a swiss army knife for radio signals. I’m mostly concerned with leveling up my dolphin though.
hey that is actually pretty cool.
if it weren’t for the price, I’d probably pick one up.
I’m surprised they haven’t been cloned and sold for much less.
I mean, the build quality is there. It feels great in the hands. Is the price a lot? I mean, its quite a tool for what it is.
