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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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poincaredisk ◴[] No.41840951[source]
Side note to people reading this: in general, when suspecting a scam, don't blindly trust anyone who says "I'm ... and I confirm this is OK". This may be the same very person who you're suspecting of original scam ;). Not a theory, I have cases looks this every other week in my dayjob.

In this case I believe the post is legit.

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creatonez ◴[] No.41841054[source]
It might ring better for the cypherpunks here that zhovner has verified their HN account ownership with their keybase GPG key, which can only be done by editing an account's profile description to include a specific signature (or by defacing HN / breaching the account). And the same key is also used to prove ownership of their Github account and website.
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1. Corrado ◴[] No.41845608[source]
Ahh... I wish Keybase had taken off and not been gobbled up by Zoom. It had so much promise with things like this.
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2. vdfs ◴[] No.41847750[source]
Hi, I am the CEO of Keybase and i can assure you we are working on features that will make this a reality
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3. velcrovan ◴[] No.41853026[source]
LOL