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>eBay has also banned Flipper Zero in recent months. I see many Flipper Zero listings, both current and sold. <https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=f

• neilv 4y ago
  This has been going on for months. eBay doesn't block it from being listed, but often removes it within hours. Some of those listings will get canceled before purchase. Some listings might sell before whatever eBay mechanism cancels listings, at least initially. But I've heard of eBay canceling sales that have already happened, regardless of whether payment happened or shipment happened. (I bet eBay would refund the buyer's money, but it could be at least a small headache for the buyer, and a bigger problem for the seller. The buyer headache could also get bigger, if the buyer is honest, and especially if there are bureaucratic mess-ups by others who are confused by the unusual situation and suspect that the honest buyer was defrauding. Never underestimate the power of incompetence/indifference to make a shocking amount of trouble for others.) (Side note, as someone from a startup that intentionally used unclonable/cloning-resistant tags, because we knew we needed to defend against cloning, and which is why I bought a Flipper Zero multi-tool in the first place... I suppose that eBay trying to ban electronics that can, among other abilities, clone RFID tags, is a response to legacy systems that didn't have cloning in their threat model. And/or a response to various half-baked new projects that totally ignore threats that they should know about (which is almost the norm lately). Maybe banning tools in this case is a responsible mitigation for legacy systems that can't handle current threats, and I can't fault eBay for not wanting to get involved in that mess. But it's unfortunate for people who are trying to design and build systems responsibly, yet have trouble getting the tools they need for their work.)