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Covert Channel: ASCII Art Over ICMP

Posted by michael on from the help-i'm-trapped-inside-a-chinese-fortune-cookie-factory dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Have you ever had a particularly lossy Cisco ping, which you were sure was trying to tell you something? I mean, really *tell* you something. Echoart allows you to return a simple ascii art image in response to a Cisco-style ping."

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  1. This seems... by danielrm26 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...mostly useless, yet very cool -- much like /. itself.

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  2. Re:Interesting by _14k4 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There we go. Set this up to query, instead of a text file, slashdot's rss feed. With every ping response, it returns the latest news headlines.