FLIPPER ZERO

The company is russian. It kinda relocated to US in ~2020, but was still hiring people in Moscow in 2023.

The device requires installing software on your current computers before it becomes operational.

You risk being pwned yourself, before you pwn someone else with it.

The device was developed by Alex Kulagin and Pavel Zhovner in 2019.

Alex Kulagin Experience: EPAM Systems · Education: Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) · Location: Uzbekistan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_State_University “Alumni of the university include past leaders of the Soviet Union and other governments.” We’re talking about russian elites tightly involved with the system here.

Pavel Zhovner One of his active projects: https://github.com/zhovner/zaborona_help/ For circumventing website blocks in Ukraine.