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Sys-Admin Dispenses Passwords With a Banana (thenewstack.io)
An anonymous reader writes: A network administrator in Denmark is requiring users to perform a finger press on a banana to receive their Wi-Fi passwords. "The banana is mounted and in production," he posted Thursday, sharing two pictures. The banana uses a special new circuit board from Makey Makey to form a connection between the banana and a cheap Raspberry Pi computer with a screen attached, according to one technology site. They note that it could also detect finger presses on a doughnut, an apple, or even Jell-o, and offer this quote from the sys-admin about his motivations. "It's fun... It'll make people smile. It beats a static WPA password in funnyness." And most importantly, "When people leave our office, they can't access our WI-Fi because there's no banana to touch." This guy deserves some kind of award, come July 29th.
...the banana rots or attracts fruit flies to the office.
This invention moves the bananas into the same category as printer ink cartridges.
"My wifi doesn't work!" "Have you tried to replace your banana, sir?"
When I tried to do something similar, all I got was a sexual harassment lawsuit!
#DeleteChrome
"Touch my banana and you get wi-fi"
Table-ized A.I.
Seems like you'd want to use a banana Pi for this.
So the banana's just a switch? It's not producing any randomness to feed into the key generation?
Also, I don't see how they can't use the wifi from outside the building once they have the password. Unless they expire, which you can do without any fruit at all.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Man 1: I bet you $10 I can get Rachael to touch my banana. ... 5 hours later
Man 2: You're on!
Man 2: I thought you meant... never mind. Here's your $10.
But what are you going to do when a muslim immigrant eats the banana?
" The banana uses a special new circuit board from Makey Makey"
Really? The Pi has GPIO pins, and you can't interface to a banana without a special new circuit board?
You want a BS170 FET and a really high resistance pull-up/down, about 10M should do it. Two components, about 10p worth of parts, and a bit of wire.
This guy has a job and it's to be a sysadmin, not a BOFH. Instead of helping his coworkers he's being an ass... and he's proud of it.
Starbucks baristas provide WiFi passwords instantly, quickly, and without gross fruit issues.
So do motel front-desk check-in clerks.
If he can't do it, it's time to get a new job.
This guy should have to "stroke the banana" on his next job review to keep his job.
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It seems that the IT monkeys have solved a one-banana problem.
Starbucks baristas provide WiFi passwords instantly, quickly, and without gross fruit issues.
For one, "instantly" and "quickly" are not the same. Also, why is a piece of fruit gross? The thing off the tree is gross, but taking stuff from a tree, grinding it to a pulp, boiling water, running it through said pulp, taking the milk from a cow, overheating it, and mixing it with the hot water that went through the pulp off the thing from the tree is... excellent?
Next week on slashdot.
It's not fun. It's moronic, and you can't spell.
Ask users, "Orange you glad it's not another banana?"
Let's see here, it sounds like his office has a policy where the wifi password changes every day and this solution provides a fun, quirky way to get the password quickly without having to hunt somebody down and you have a problem with it. You sound like you're a bore at parties. Lighten up, you'll live longer.
The banana is a button. That's very juvenile. If someone in my office were to do this, I'd start loading them with enough "responsibilities" to make them leave.
https://xkcd.com/554/
teats, lady. teats.
banana teats. hey, some are!
happy now?
ffs.
When life give you a lemon, you make lemonade. But when life hands you a banana..............banananananananan BATMAN!!!!
of standardized measure for length of password. Guy must be a Redditor.
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump
He's probably doing it to offend the muslims in the office. In Islam, the banana is a sacred animal.
I am NOT TOUCHING HIS BANANA!!! I'll stay offline, thank you!
shove it up your poop chute.
poop shoot.
FTFY.
some people think it needs to pass through the intestines of a small animal in order to be excellent.
Seems like a security risk, with the potential for viruses:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banana_and_plantain_diseases
Those are melons.
Not to be confused with the password to the doors of Durin.
I get fired.
I think you meant September 22nd.
Oh wait..
In Berlin, at the headquarters of "Sprockets," the sysadmin is using a monkey instead of a banana.
For your security, this post has been encrypted with ROT-13, twice.
Where I worked, they required a mushroom stamp. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
thank you.
-the banana maker.
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