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Is there any message from the Flipper Zero people that this is actually their device? It’s not mentioned on https://www.flipperdevices.com/ https://www.flipper
by VoxPelli 2y ago
Is there any message from the Flipper Zero people that this is actually their device?
It’s not mentioned on https://www.flipperdevices.com/ https://www.flipperdevices.com/, neither on https://flipperzero.one/ https://flipperzero.one/ or their Instagram?
They have been plagued with peopling scamming people in their name before
- kretaceous 2y agoCheck the footer.
- jstanley 2y agoThat doesn't prove anything.
- blensor 2y agoAnd interestingly none of the socials I could find are mentioning it. I am not saying it is a scam it's just very strange that all connections between busy.bar and flipper devices are one way. One would expect some two way mentions
- marliechiller 2y agoIt literally says: "Flipper Devices Designed by Flipper Devices Inc. © 2024. All rights reserved."
- ThrowawayTestr 2y agoAnyone can put that there
- swores 2y agoEvery scam website ever made that pretends to be part of a known business copies that business's footer text, it's not remotely relevant in trying to judge whether a website is telling the truth or not about who owns it. (And in case anyone reads my comment without seeing that the founder of Flipper already commented confirming this is theirs, not a scam: that's the case.)
- mikestew 2y agoYeah, and those “PayPal” emails telling me to enter my creds must be legit because they say “PayPal © 2024” at the bottom, with a link to paypal.com.
- floam 2y agoActually fake ones will inevitably show "(c)" because they couldn't get authorization for the copyright key. If you zoom in you can see the gaps in the circle betraying the deception. To be extra cautious, select it to make sure it's real text and not a screenshot of a real copyright notice - this is a common workaround. There is also one known proof of concept exploit using false glyphs in web fonts - this is why many security researchers disable the loading of fonts. Subscribe to my Practical Cybersecurity newsletter
- 71bw 2y ago©©©©©©©© I just got 8 of those with no authorization
- Ancapistani 2y agoHave you not heard of responsible disclosure!?
- floam 2y agoDid you steal them cut and paste?
- assusdan 2y agoIt is mentioned at their "We're hiring" page https://flipperdevices.com/jobs#!/tab/282752814-2 https://flipperdevices.com/jobs#!/tab/282752814-2 "We are looking for a professional multidisciplinary designer to join our Busy Status Bar team and help bring the product to Kickstarter, generating excitement among future users."
- emilkaiumov 2y agoIt is (but in russian) Pavel Zhovner (a lead of flipper devices) wrote about Busy status bar 3 months ago in his Telegram channel (https://t.me/zhovner_hub/2073 https://t.me/zhovner_hub/2073). At https://flipperzero.one/ https://flipperzero.one/ you can find habr.com blog link. The first post in Flipper blog was made by Zhovner https://habr.com/ru/users/zhovner/ https://habr.com/ru/users/zhovner/ (who has a link to telegram channel zhovner_hub).
- zhovner 2y agoHi, Pavel Zhovner here, Flipper Devices CEO. Yes it's our product, but it's not ready for announcement yet, so we keep it secret. Right now, we are working on implementing Matter smart home protocol and will slightly change the product concept.
- Y_Y 2y agoHi Pavel Zhovner. I'm afraid you're not doing a very good job of keeping it secret. What are the odds of a kit version woth a lower pricetag and some assembly required?
- diggan 2y ago> What are the odds of a kit version woth a lower pricetag and some assembly required? Or even better, a version that ships with everything besides "the brain" and allows us to use our Flipper Zero as the brain :) Looking at the old blog articles about the project, it seems it got started with using Flipper Zero as the brain, so maybe it's not that far-fetched.
- adamyormark 2y ago[flagged]
- dr_kiszonka 2y agoIt looks gorgeous, especially the hardware. I think the typeface on the hardware and the retro busy text could be further refined, but it is very very cool overall.
- dr_kiszonka 2y ago(Looking at the renders, there are at least four different fonts on the device. It would probably look better if you used fewer.)
- poincaredisk 2y agoSide note to people reading this: in general, when suspecting a scam, don't blindly trust anyone who says "I'm ... and I confirm this is OK". This may be the same very person who you're suspecting of original scam ;). Not a theory, I have cases looks this every other week in my dayjob. In this case I believe the post is legit.
- bloopernova 2y agoI wonder how many people bought this item without checking that it's legitimate?
- barrenko 2y agoCaveat empor my dude.
- diggan 2y agoI'm 97% sure 0 people bought this thing, seeing as it isn't available to buy yet.
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- tjohns 2y agoZero, because there's no checkout page yet. Just a mailing list for status updates.
- bloopernova 2y agoThat would put a crimp in any purchase plans, to be sure.
- gorgoiler 2y agoFlipper Zero’s UK jobs page is currently advertising for a designer to work on the Busy Bar: https://flipperdevices.com/jobs#!/tab/282752814-2 https://flipperdevices.com/jobs#!/tab/282752814-2 …linked at the bottom of https://flipperzero.one/ https://flipperzero.one/
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