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by sam_lowry_ 35 days ago
Heh... I used Flipper Zero to clone RFID tags for all the neighbors to T5577 rings, pins, sticky pads and whatever not for our gated community.

If you are adventurous, many ski stations have low-tech cards as well, although they also tend to have human controllers once in a while.

And, finally, kids like running around with Flipper Zero opening power taps on Teslas.

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> And, finally, kids like running around with Flipper Zero opening power taps on Teslas.

one time I parked in a tesla near to a bank of superchargers.

every time someone hooked up their car to charge (pressing the button on the charging cable), my charge port would swing open.

every minute or two...

A friend of mine has a HackRF in his car continuously transmitting the charge-port-open command. Sometimes he sends me videos of the "salutes" he gets from them.
I was skiing in Mammoth a few months ago and one day they disabled the automated readers on all the lifts and began manually checking the RFID lift ticket/cards. I suspected somebody had cloned a pass to save money for their group.
Yeah each pass will have a unique code for every user, if they find the same user entering multiple times in a short amount of time it will flag up. I gathered they use facial recognition too so if they see the same card with different faces it'll flag up as well. They don't fuck around.

(granted, facial recognition in a ski resort is uh. an interesting challenge)

Pretty sure the most use I've got out of mine is using it as a tv-b-gone.
Are smartphones not capable of cloning RFID tags?
They can clone NFC tags, if the phone hardware, drivers and software permits. It really depends on how smart the chip inside the smartphone is and how locked down its drivers are. I still keep around a Galaxy S3 because its reader does not complain when writing to UID fields of a NFC tag. Saved a lot of friends exorbitant second keyfob landlord fees.
NFC yes, RFID I don't know.

https://github.com/nfcgate/nfcgate

Typically the hardware is capable of it, but the drivers aren't.