Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
Kiwicon Hipsters and selfie addicts beware: infosec man Steve Lord has crafted a tool designed to sever your line of addiction to Instagram by quietly blocking it over public Wi-Fi. The British security bod built the Raspberry Pi Zero-powered “hipster slayer” out of nothing more than off-the-shelf components and “questionable life choices.” The gizmo will continually deny people’s attempts to connect to Instagram and other social media vanity sites. It works by sniffing for DNS lookups on open wireless networks, and when it detects someone trying to access a hated website, special networking frames are sent to the person’s PC or handheld instructing it to immediately leave the network. The vast majority of devices comply with these orders. It is exceptionally effective at selfie-drenched “music” festivals and coffee shops. Lord (@stevelord) says the tool will feature in his presentation at the Kiwicon conference in Wellington, New Zealand, next week. The Wi-Fi-blocking gadget is among a bunch of gizmos he’s crafted and dubbed the Internet of Wrongs; they are designed “solely to antagonise people.” “It powers up from a battery and looks for DNS records on open wireless networks that meet target keywords and deauths the client when it finds a […]
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