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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."
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.
It also identifies virgins.
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.
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!
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.
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.