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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. Re:And walking around with it ... by roc97007 · · Score: 2

    > And walking around with it gets you arrested and held for psychiatric evaluation.

    If it doesn't get you shot outright.

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    Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
  4. 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.
    2. Re:Side benefit by loufoque · · Score: 2

      I find it sad that people still criticize geeky behaviour for being uncool and preventing you from getting laid, as if being a dudebro that gets laid with superficial women was all life was about.

  5. 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.

  6. Not very original by Ksevio · · Score: 2

    Very similar to a project someone did a couple years ago that did the exact same thing: http://jomegat.wordpress.com/2...

  7. Re:And walking around with it ... by BitwiseX · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hey come on, stand down.. This the first article in a LONG TIME that actually FEELS like Slashdot...
    No politics... no script kiddie bullshit.. not a random person's blog post..
    Just fun hacking for no good reason other than to do it. That's why most of us are here!

  8. 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.

  9. Re:And walking around with it ... by rossdee · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But what about the 2nd Amendment?

    The right to bear arms includes swords as well as guns. Swords were more common when the constitution was written.

  10. Re:And walking around with it ... by rdwulfe · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why, exactly, are you on a site with the motto "news for nerds"?

    Seriously, why would people whine about this? It's a cute little hack, and people are... ahem, up in arms over it. Live a little. Laugh a little. Stop trying to be "grown up". Are you 16 or something, and trying to appear older? Trust me, when you get older, you'll have enough of that in your life. Things like this will make you smile, even if you personally don't wish to make it.

    Stop trying to tell others how "adult" you are.