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Glowing Hobbit Sword Helps You Find Unsecured Wi-Fi

Posted by Soulskill on from the caught-in-a-web-soon-to-be-online dept.

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."

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  1. Great. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  2. But can it detect trolls? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I mean seriously, unsecured WiFi is one thing, but it's the trolls I need to worry about.

  3. Side benefit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    It also identifies virgins.

    1. Re:Side benefit by PPH · · Score: 4, Funny

      I was going to say it is effective for defending the owner's virginity. But more or less the same idea.

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      Have gnu, will travel.
  4. Re:And walking around with it ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seriously, does anyone want to look more like a geek?

    Excuse me ma'am but you seem to be lost. You are currently in Slashdot. If you're looking for Facebook, it's down the hall and the third door on your left.

  5. False positives by Livius · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.