VNC Server for Toasters and Light-Switches

An anonymous reader submits: "How about using VNC to configure your toaster, microwave oven, or even your light-switches? Thanks to Adam Dunkels' micro-VNC server it is now possible to run a VNC server even on really small embedded 8-bit microcontrollers commonly found in such devices. The idea is that even low-cost devices that don't have a screen or graphics hardware could have a GUI, accessible over the network. To show that the server can run with very small amounts of memory, there is a demo server running on a Commodore 64. But the real question is: how would want to 'configure' their toasters using a GUI?"

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Jon, the Al-Qaida and the FBI

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What does it take, a minor miracle to get a good story posted on Slashdot? Yes, it's grousing, but dammit, it's a decent read. That's 11 out of 11. Sheesh.

2002-07-30 20:40:46 Jon, the Al-Qaida and the FBI (articles,internet) (rejected)
Jon Messner had a very good, not to mention devious idea: Hack a known Al-Qaida website, take it over and set up shop as an intelligence gathering operation. Then he involved the FBI and that's where things went wrong. A facinating look into governmental internet readiness and how easily your privacy can evaporate if you belong to the right group.