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Glowing Hobbit Sword Helps You Find Unsecured Wi-Fi
Molly McHugh writes By disassembling your plastic Sting and incorporating the Spark Core, a tiny Wi-Fi development kit, you can hack the toy's light and enlist it to show you when you are near an unsecure network. The best part about this hack? It only requires two things: a Spark Core and a replica Sting with lights and sound, like this one."
And walking around with it gets you arrested and held for psychiatric evaluation. Why bother when your phone can already do this? Seriously, does anyone want to look more like a geek?
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
This thing would never go out. I mean, is there pretty much anywhere you can stand that doesn't have at least an HP printer ad-hoccing away?
Someone had to do it.
Now you can run around in your hobbit-con costume saving the world from unsecured wi-fi, while trying to throw the token ring back from the fire from which it came.
"like this one" loses impact as a close when there is no 'this' to behold.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I mean seriously, unsecured WiFi is one thing, but it's the trolls I need to worry about.
It also identifies virgins.
Sting isn't that special.
Very similar to a project someone did a couple years ago that did the exact same thing: http://jomegat.wordpress.com/2...
"An overly simplistic diagram, and isn't a totally accurate" but more can be learned at our web page....
Can you say ripoff? I knew you could.
Open networks will do more for the world than indiscriminate wireless encryption. This sword should glow blue in the absence of an open network, in preparation for a future where a lack of connectivity is the real danger.
That doesn't sound very safe. People will be thinking they've found unsecured wi-fi and then get themselves ambushed by orcs they weren't expecting.
Or you could just use one of the dozens of Apps for Android or Apple that shows that and much more info about the nearby hotspots.
Why do people re-invent the wheel - poorly?
Black Slashdotters may want to avoid walking around the city with something that could be seen as a weapon.
Adapt your peril-sensitive sunglasses into open wifi detectors using this one easy trick!
Uh, yeah, you can do lots of things when you're not getting laid.
Anyone got a good android WEP hacking kit for Android?
Let me know. I want it to autohack me in. I use about 5kps for phonecalls.
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"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
At the time, he was always running around in a ninja outfit. But this idea would have been just enough to get him to change costumes. Hint: If you're older than 12, you might want to consider wearing this getup strictly in your own house!
If only they released a model that detected a real live woman. Much more useful to the Slashdot community!
Providing all my WiFi hotspots unencrypted free for all around and I find my network perfectly secure. Security is ssh+openvpn one can use on top of it.
Hello,
For something a little less conspicuous, a Canary WiFi detector might be a better choice if, for some reason, one couldn't just walk around with a smartphone or tablet.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
Dexter is a good dog.
...find fields of gold?
The best part about this hack? It only requires two things: a Spark Core and a replica Sting with lights and sound, like this one.
The worst part about this hack? Ah, who am I kidding, you all know exactly where I'm going with this.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
If not, it will be useless in my town. I hate "open" wifi networks that have a captive portal that requires registration.
Don't forget about the part where 50 cops shoot you repeatedly for waving that thing around.
Modify a toy sonic screwdriver to do the same thing. Then you can just say you are a future incarnation of the Doctor.
Isn't that precious! (Sorry, couldn't resist)
Slashdot, you've had me worried for the last few years, with endless clickbait and frequent contributions from Bennet Haselton, but this - truly - is news for nerds: stuff that matters. At last!
This prompts Sting to join the network and publishes a message: "{YOUR WI-FI NETWORK} has been vanquished!"
Looking at the code snippet,
Spark.publish("vanquished",name); // Feel the Wrath!
Where exactly is this published? Sure does not appear that it would be anywhere that the owner of this supposedly-vanquished network would see it.
Hey, Windows users, there is no such thing as "forward" slash, there is only slash and backslash.