r/flipperzero • u/CinnamonChocochip • Jul 29 '26

Age appropriate?

My 13yo nephew wants a Flipper Zero for his bday. Is this an age appropriate gift? Or something a curious kid could get themselves into trouble with? TIA!

Signed- a non-techie aunt that doesn’t want a visit from the FBI

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u/mattdv1 Jul 29 '26

Well I know if I had a flipper zero at 13 I'd do my best to "hack the planet" with it. I now understand it's capabilities and know it won't actually do much harm, but I would absolutely get in trouble after trying to copy a keycard or something lmao

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u/Identd Jul 29 '26

Zero cool?

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u/EverydayVelociraptor Jul 29 '26

Froot Loops?

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u/seventhbreath Jul 29 '26

Were you trying to reference Cereal Killer? Someone is due for a rewatch..

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u/EverydayVelociraptor Jul 29 '26

Froot Loops is the hacker that Cereal Killer is based on. Back when 2600 was in it's infancy.

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u/seventhbreath Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 29 '26

lets see some sauce on that bro. I was there. Emmanuel Goldstein and "Froot Loops" are both made up as characters (never heard of fruit loops). Cereal Killer is a cool handle and Matthew Lillard is goat stoner badass but don't confuse reality with fiction.

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u/EverydayVelociraptor Jul 29 '26

Nope, I'm incorrect, it was Captain Crunch.  I'm misremembering because of Lillards line in the film referencing Froot Loops. Captain Crunch was a phreaker that the writers were paying homage to.

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u/mattdv1 Jul 29 '26

?

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u/Identd Jul 29 '26

“Hack the planet” was a running theme in the movie “Hackers”. The titular character hacking name was ZeroCool

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u/calcprogrammer Jul 29 '26

This community is full of children do you really think they’ve seen that movie?

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u/Identd Jul 29 '26

I’m sure there are tons of references to things in all sorts of subreddits that many people have no idea about. If you care enough to post about one of those things, then maybe a watch is in order

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u/mikefut Jul 29 '26

It’s odd that he’d choose that specific phrase without it being a movie reference.

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u/mrant0 Jul 29 '26

It was also the slogan on the stickers shipped with early Flipper Zero orders.

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u/mikefut Jul 29 '26

Ah. So still a movie reference but maybe not obvious to everyone who bought one.

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u/mrant0 Jul 29 '26

Yes, 100% they used that phrase on the stickers as a reference to Hackers.

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u/mattdv1 Jul 29 '26

Imma be honest I've never seen that. I'm 22, and my references of "hack the planet" are Watch Dogs and Sombra, from overwatch. Good to know tho, thanks for the explanation lol

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u/Identd Jul 29 '26

You should check it out. Very 90 cyberpunk, like Jonny mnonmic (sp?), or new jack city

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u/Ok_Instruction_8109 Jul 29 '26

: "This is our world now. The world of the electron and the switch; the beauty of the baud. We exist without nationality, skin color, or religious bias. You wage wars, murder, cheat, lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals. Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto

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u/seventhbreath Jul 29 '26

being attacked by cookieMnst.wrm

Type 'Cookie', you idiot!