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Bluesniper Creator Interviewed on Gizmodo

Posted by michael on from the long-shot dept.

carbolic writes "Gizmodo interviews John Hering, one of the Bluedriving crew (of which I was one: picture) and creator of the Bluesniper rifle. Get the backstory on the recent 1.08 mile cellphone Bluesnarf attack and find out his motivation for building the rifle and trying a snarf to a cellphone you can't even see."

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  1. Motivation is always simple by Gopal.V · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's never been done and more importantly "You can do it !!" (in a totally non-Waterboy style).

    The real question to be asked is - What next ? :)

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  2. Customs by elbazo · · Score: 2, Funny

    The question is, if he tried to get that out of the country would he be called a terrorist for having a rifle shaped object that would interfere with the planes radar system.

  3. Go way to get tackled down by security! by barks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When I saw this gizmo originally on Tom's Hardware Defcon 12 review (posted on a /. article), I thought in deed it was clever but more so intriguing b/c it was slapped on to a rifle handle. I can just imagine bingo-ladies calling 911 when they see a bunch of lads driving around pointing this thing aimlessly out the window trying to snag a signal, if their team name "Bluedriving crew".

    No doubt a solid way to get in trouble is to make something look like a weapon and walk around public with it, or to point one of them laser pointers at Bill Clinton at a next book signing (offtopic note: notice the stiff no-ass-grab-hug in that picture he has to do now).:P

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  4. Double Standard? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Let me get this straight: This guy invented a gadget which is expressly designed to mess with other people's property, correct?

    And this makes him a geek hero?

    If this device was a US government-sponsored project,can you imagine the barrage of outraged posts?