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Re:The future of Flipper Zero development by Aachen on Sunday July 05, 2026 @07:44PM (#48799118)
You're thinking of NFC, not RFID, and with NFC the owner might not have changed the default keys.

It's a common mix-up (people barely differentiate between the terms anymore, though I'm surprised nobody in 2 hours mentioned it yet), basically RFID is (historically) an ID; a username. Like an ID field in a database. NFC is near-field communication: bidirectional. It does challenge-response and typically runs on hardened chips. But yeah people will call NFC chips RFID and RFID chips NFC all the time. Both are waterproof devices doing radio transmissions on wireless power and you can't tell them apart without using some equipment to try and read the chip type (even if most phones can do that nowadays), so I can understand the terminology generalisation

Re:The future of Flipper Zero development by account42 on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @05:26AM (#48815431)
> and with NFC the owner might not have changed the default keys

Or the use case doesn't depend on any protected bits. A lot of NFC chips are being used as glorified ID tags even if the hardware could do more. And what actual security the hardware provides varies a lot - it's more like a gradient from dumb ID to full java card than a clean distinction.

Re:The future of Flipper Zero development by Aachen on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @07:55AM (#48830759)
Ah yes, very true