[neilv]

Are any more Flipper Zero units coming into the US?

I heard that a shipment was seized a couple months ago, maybe due to national sanctions.

(I have a Flipper Zero, but no time to play with it. Wondering whether I should sell it, or hold onto it because I won't be able to re-obtain one later.)

[garren]

Mine was held up by the seizure. I got an email about it, but they were able get it out a month or so later. They were able to work around it, but I don’t recall the details. I think they had a blog post about it.

[gadders]

Probably being overly cynical, but I wonder if some of those flippers were back-doored by NSA or similar like they did to TVs.

[neilv]

No more ridiculous a theory would be that Russian hackers found a way to get many thousands of other hackers around the world to plug in BADUSB/trojan devices. And to also fund their own compromise. :)

(No offense to our Flipper-creating friends. I suspect many hackers can appreciate the interesting and humorous human dynamics that are sometimes at play.)

[windexh8er]

I purchased two of them, recently. I bought one in December from an authorized reseller and received it within 2 weeks. Ordered another one direct from the official Flipper website in late December as a gift and received that one within 1 week. They're easy to get at this point.

[comfypotato]

Mine was too. The seizure had more to do with the war (as the devices come from Russia and are explicitly labeled for hacking) - my package got to me fine, looks like it wasn’t tampered with or anything. I think business is as usual for the Flipper folks.

[weinzierl]

I thought they were shipped directly from China? On their shipping page they reported issues shipping to Belarus which would be unusual if they'd ship from Russia. If anything I'd expected issues with payment but I've never heard that to be the case.

[comfypotato]

I don’t really know just regurgitating the communication I followed while my device was in limbo. Even if it’s from China, maybe there’s info surrounding the container that it’s a Russian company selling a hacking tool.