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VoxPelli ◴[] No.41839491[source]
Is there any message from the Flipper Zero people that this is actually their device?

It’s not mentioned on https://www.flipperdevices.com/, neither on https://flipperzero.one/ or their Instagram?

They have been plagued with peopling scamming people in their name before

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zhovner ◴[] No.41839748[source]
Hi, Pavel Zhovner here, Flipper Devices CEO. Yes it's our product, but it's not ready for announcement yet, so we keep it secret.

Right now, we are working on implementing Matter smart home protocol and will slightly change the product concept.

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adtac ◴[] No.41841177[source]
Is there any message from the Flipper Zero people that this is actually their CEO? :)
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diggan ◴[] No.41841305[source]
No need, the user profile (cryptographically) links to their keybase profiles which corroborates the identity. The future is here! :)
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rtpg ◴[] No.41843593[source]
Funnily, the way I used to check Keybase profiles is to check Twitter because a blue checkmark there was usually a good indication of them being "the famous person" but thanks to Twitter Blue that feature is no longer usable.

I understand Keybase allows you to link up a bunch of accounts, but it doesn't prevent you from making all of those accounts say you are the CEO/CTO of some company unfortunately.

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diggan ◴[] No.41843778[source]
> but it doesn't prevent you from making all of those accounts say you are the CEO/CTO of some company unfortunately

At least a GitHub profile link can usually be used to validate that this account actually has write access to a GitHub organization, so you can somewhat see it's the right person. Requires them to have pushed any public commits to within that organization though.

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1. rtpg ◴[] No.41843914{3}[source]
Fair point, yeah.