[rpgraham84]

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[wepple]

“Enable various forms of cybercrime” seems like a stretch.

If flipper does, so does Nmap and metasploit and Linux and soldering irons.

[rpgraham84]

They all do too to varying degrees. You can say "X enables cybercrime" and "Y enables more cybercrime than X" and both could be true for any given X and Y.

For instance, someone buying a flipper is far more likely to do something illegal with it than someone buying a soldering iron. Both could be used only for legal purposes too, of course.

For every news story you can find of someone doing a legal thing with a flipper I can find you at least 10 stories of someone doing something illegal with it. Same for metasploit, nmap is borderline, and soldering irons not so much.

[dingnuts]

where do you see that they are Russian? they seem to have a bunch of US Patents, a Delaware postal HQ, and an office in the UK

[NicuCalcea]

Most of the staff looks to be Russian: https://www.linkedin.com/company/flipper-devices/people/

[Nzen]

The company makes Flipper Zero as well. When they launched that product, the same topic came up [0]. The strongest argument given seems to hinge on the former nationality/residence of many of the original team. Obviously, different people will weight that above or below the UK address / USA incorporation.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32168388

[rpgraham84]

the original team is Russian, but they downplay that a lot now (until you buy one and the promo stickers are in Russian). yes, they're registered in Delaware, almost every company that operates in the US is, including foreign companies.