Brazil seizing Flipper Zero shipments to prevent use in crime

Jeez, I have a flipper zero and it’s amazingly boring. I use it as a sensor for WiFi to determine strength and other metrics to improve my home WiFi. I used it once to fix a tire sensor, or rather to determine which one was bad. It’s not some hacker tool, it has a bright white case with a fluorescent orange wrap and only useful for debugging and testing things. It’s great, but not dangerous.

I'm going to disagree with current comments here, I think the rationale for banning here is not far-fetched. It is analog to the guns vs knives argument in my opinion: of course you can kill people with any tool, but guns just make it too easy, and thus should be more tightly controlled. Before Brazil figures out how to contain the damage from such tools that ultimately facilitate crime, their sales can wait.

Curious why they are focusing on this gadget when every <i>hacking</i> function in it has a related item for sale. Are they also blocking Hak5 Wifi Pineapples, or the micro voice activated recorders, or the key-chain sized security card cloning devices, or the myriad of gps tracking gadgets? Do they block downloads of Kali Linux?

They are already being sold for at least US$600 online and I&#x27;ve seen it offered at more than US$1000.<p>It&#x27;s going to make it worthwhile to build them here.

I love how these people think banning a hobbyist redteam tool will prevent real RF related crime.<p>Silly criminals thwarted again by not having access to legally purchased hobbyist tools!<p>Owners of Tesla charging port covers and garage door openers rejoice as their harassment is finally ended.

The audacity of such governments to stifle research &amp; innovation is just atrocious, can you imagine how censored &amp; sterile the global communication networks would have been if it were up to the governments in the 90s to decide what can &amp; cannot be used.....

Interesting - I searched to see about flipper zero, and this was one of the results:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cyber.nj.gov&#x2F;alerts-advisories&#x2F;flipper-zero&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cyber.nj.gov&#x2F;alerts-advisories&#x2F;flipper-zero&#x2F;</a>

FYI, core team of the company developing Flipper Zero is located in Moscow, Russia. I wouldn&#x27;t trust russian company with making my devices.

Why not seize all incoming computers while you&#x27;re at it since they can be used for crime?