The corporate behind Flipper Zero expects $80 million in gross sales this yr, which ZDNet estimates at round 500,000 unit gross sales.
In its Kickstarter days the corporate offered virtually $5 million as preorders, remembers TechCrunch, and the corporate claims it offered $25 million price of the units final yr:
So what are they promoting? Flipper Zero is a “moveable gamified multi-tool” geared toward everybody with an curiosity in cybersecurity, whether or not as a penetration tester, curious nerd or pupil — or with extra nefarious functions. The device features a bunch of the way to control the world round you, together with wi-fi units (suppose storage openers), RFID card programs, distant keyless programs, key fobs, entry to limitations, and so forth. Principally, you possibly can program it to emulate a bunch of various lock programs.
The system actually works, too — I am not a lot of a hacker, however I have been in a position to open garages, activate elevators and open different locking programs that ought to be means past my hacking talent degree. On the one hand, it is an fascinating toy to experiment with, which highlights how insecure a lot of the world round us truly is. However, I am curious if it is an excellent concept to have 300,000+ hacking units out within the wild that make it simple to seize automobile key alerts and gate openers after which use them to open mentioned apertures.
The corporate factors out that their firmware is open supply, and might be inspected by anybody.
ZDNet calls it “extremely user-friendly” and “a incredible instructional device and a stepping stone to get folks — younger and previous — into cybersecurity,” with “a really energetic group of customers which are always discovering new issues to do with it”. (Even third-party working programs can be found).
“As an alternative of wanting like some scary hacking device, all black and bristling with antennas, it appears to be like like a child’s toy, all plastic and brightly coloured,” writes ZDNet. “It jogs my memory of Tamagotchis…”
Because of Slashdot reader ZipNada for suggesting the article.
