NYC Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero alongside explosives (blog.adafruit.com)

You’ve really made it to big time when you are causelessly banned by the gov. Congrats to flipper and Pi!

How are they going to enforce this? "No officer see this is an orange pi"

Lots of products come with integrated rPis since they're so easy to work with and have good vendor support. I guess all those products are banned too lol.

Will they ban cell phones?

isn't "weapon" already general enough by definition? also why not disallow laptop then?

I am always worried when I bring development boards on airplanes. I assume most people are reasonable, but I worry for a few that might not be.

This makes me want to buy a flipper

They ban drones and remote-controlled aerial devices, but nothing about RC ground-based devices or robots.

The reeks of someone new being in charge (at whatever level approves this list), and feeling compelled to "prove" themselves via a show of power - in this case, adding items to a prohibited list. As such behaviors go, this one is petty.

Adafruit's point on the banning of specific devices stands out as being particularly foolish. I doubt security would react well to any obvious cyberpunk cyberdeck build, regardless of the hardware inside.

What's also hacker-unfriendly is giving all your hacker-friendly article's traffic to Cloudflare, and then letting Cloudflare block Tor exit nodes from reading your article.

>New York City usually gets this right. It has decades of muscle memory for doing hard things in public, under pressure, without panicking.

Not something I would say about Stop-And-Frisk city but whatever.

Ohnoes, circuit boards are so scary. Please protect us from the evil hackers mister Mamdani.

Honestly that’s a relief. For a moment I was worried they would ban my ESP32-powered animated LED Mooninite.

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People should bring raspberry pies in protest, see what happens.

The language is unfortunately imprecise (or rather too precise) but I’d imagine this is simply allowing security staff discretion to refuse suspicious circuit board looking devices. They’re not going to be checking for brand names.

Guess I'll have to bring my Arduino then... lol, what a weird thing to add to the list.

It's like someone watched Mr. Robot and determined their list of additional hacking tools from asking ChatGPT what tools Elliot would use.

The cops made this list. The idea that a smartphone can do everything a Raspberry Pi can do, and more, is a concept so far beyond their level of understanding that the discussion is pointless.

I carried an RPi running a Meshtastic BBS around Def Con this year. I can kinda see why these combinations would make authorities nervous ("you have a computer-controlled radio what now?"), but the idea of getting arrested for toting around a souped up walkie talkie amuses me.

Can anyone explain logic for beach balls and blankets?

Interesting. Adafruit is now on the list of sites I will no longer visit, given their locking down and harvesting visitor data, and explicitly preventing archive sites.

Who cares about the Pi Zero? There's no umbrellas and no strollers/pushchairs/prams/etc. - and to add insult to injury you're not allowed booze as well.

Oh good. My OrangePi is safe.

Raspberry Pi clones are not on the list. Orange Pi anyone?

I feel like this isn’t the kind of thing that just shows up on normal people’s radars out of nowhere. There must be some precedent, maybe a bunch of kids recently showed up to a similar event with these items