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They have an esp expansion board but the default flipper is an stm microcontroller + CC1101, I was actually surprised it didn't use an esp32.

Oh oops, I must have been confused with the addon board yeah. Sorry.

I was hoping to see a much cheaper alternatives (say $20-30) but is yet to happen. After all its a fairly simple hardware with a tiny bit of RF.

But maybe discussion about banning it will push creation of some alternatives?

Seems to be happening already yes:

I've seen that one. Better than nothing, although 119 feels still a bit too high for a $30 BOM.

What do we know about the company behind this?

> It will just hamper white hat security researchers.

And deter at least some script kiddies.

I'd wager far more script kiddies would be turned away by this move than white hat security researchers.