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I wonder if anyone uses Flipper Zeros for things like this yet. Cameras, garage doors, radio activated gates are usually very insecure. They were not built under the assumption that thieves could hack RFID devices easily.

I don't want this to happen but it's kind of cool in a cyberpunk dystopia kind of way.

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The flipper zero is an FCC-approved toy with an itty bitty teeny tiny subset of the capabilities of proper wide-band SDR kit, e.g. HackRF One. This isn't due to firmware locks that can be jailbroken - there is no wide-band SDR hardware present. This is just a collection of a small handful of narrow-band SDR chips.

Neither serious threat actors nor corporate red teams waste their time with such trivial things.

Sure, but plenty of consumer tech is vulnerable to trivial attacks.

Yeah I don’t care about serious threat actors, I just want to borrow my neighbors’ stuff at my whim.

While this is true, the Flipper Zero doesn't have wifi radios or an SDR that can transmit in the wifi frequency ranges. OOB it's impossible to jam wifi with with the Flipper.

RFID cameras...?

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