Stephen Fry and DVD Jon Back USB Sniffer Project

An anonymous reader writes "bushing and pytey of the iPhone DevTeam and Team Twiizers have created a Kickstarter project to fund the build of an open-source/open-hardware high-speed USB protocol analyzer. The board features a high-speed USB 2.0 sniffer that will help with the reverse engineering of proprietary USB hardware. The project has gained the backing of two high-profile individuals: Jon Lech Johansen (DVD Jon), and actor and comedian Stephen Fry."

Comments

Re:Er, uh, who?

[Elbart]

A British Comedian or whatever who is into eugenics, nothing too interesting.

Re:Stephen Fry's previous good stuff: gnu bday

[cgenman]

Sometimes there are second considerations.

Smartphones in the US were painfully abysmal before the iPhone. Every phone I owned before the iPhone deserved to be immediately flushed down a toilet. And I owned most of them. The stuff was GOD AWFUL. I remember using a friend's Nokia which was essentially a flip-out camera with a phone embedded into it, and it took 1/3rd of an hour of searching and 7 menu clicks to take a photo.

The iPhone advanced phone interfaces and technology tremendously. Tremendously. We're in a far better phone world because of it. Is it horribly locked down? Definitely. But it also works really well. Sometimes making the world an actual better place is enough, even if you're not vegan while doing it.