WiFi-sniffing picture frame

This picture frame, made from an ancient Pentium II laptop, displayes images sniffed out of public WiFi connections: "Many coffee shops in Vancouver feature both local art and wi-fi, so why not combine the two?" Wiretap picture frame [Free Geek Vancouver via JWZ]

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Anonymous

The perverse part of me would be tempted to surf Rule 34 while in wifi range.
Anonymous

no danger of congressional genitalia showing up over a tall americano, is there?
Nettdata

so why not combine the two?

The list is quite long, actually: goatse.cx, tubgirl, two girls one cup, one guy one jar, just to name a few.

Not exactly the “art” I’d like to see while scarfing down a scone at the local coffee shop.
- holtt
  
  Assuming someone’s sitting in the coffee shop surfing that stuff, you’re gonna see it on someone’s table anyway :P
  
  This would be a pretty neat thing to put up in a workplace. Not sayin’ it matters what you do on your computer at work, but it may end up going up on the screen so think twice.
  - Nettdata
    
    Assuming someone’s sitting in the coffee shop surfing that stuff, you’re gonna see it on someone’s table anyway :P
    
    Ahh, but a little shell script, running in a minimized window, that loops a bunch of wget calls is not visible by anyone.
    
    Believe me, IMMEDIATELY the game would on to see who could get the most disgustingly funny image to show up.
    
    Because we’re all juvenile like that at heart. At least if you’re doing it right. ;)
Anonymous

common sense of privacy? It’s still a neat-ish idea.
Lobster

Doesn’t it kind of defeat the purpose the moment you attach it to a stationary location?
- turn_self_off
  
  Not if said stationary location is in a public space like a coffee shop.
VillageIdiot

I bet it’ll display a lot of porn.
hapa

two headless clients
all day long send each other
nyan cat, running free.
- blueelm
  
  nice!
- dagfooyo
  
  Best haiku ever. You win the internet.
Gulliver

Do they serve spam with that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE
Anonymous

They did something like this at Defcon a couple of years back. Goatse and other disgusting images soon followed. The hotel made them shut it down.

You really don’t want to know what other people look at.
- turn_self_off
  
  Heh, i guess it was an attempted extension of the Defcon classic of posting sniffed email sniplets and such in a public place during the conference.
turn_self_off

Glad i got a mobile carrier that is sane about tethering…