[matthewdgreen]

Portable devices like the Flipper make it very easy to distribute working RF-layer exploits that don’t get hung up on all the non-standard hardware in phones and laptops. And frankly, that’s a good thing! Because manufacturers have, for some reason, decided that if there’s a radio-layer protocol involved somehow they’ll be protected by the obscurity of it. The Flipper lets devs turn those vulns into push-button exploits, which is finally inspiring companies to clean up the crapware in those stacks. (And I bet there is scarier stuff in there that researchers just haven’t found yet.)