Spoilers, sweetie…
If you didn’t catch the latest episode of Doctor Who, here’s the plot: Random people connect to strangely-named WiFi networks and later have their conciousness uploaded to the Internet with the help of spoonheaded robots. To the non-Whovian that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, but [Tony Box] figured out a way to replicate the effect with a Linux box and a USB WiFi card, just in time for a great April Fool’s gag.
For the SSID, the folks over on reddit decided the best characters come from the Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Unicode block. [Tony] then set up a laptop with a USB wifi card with hostapd, and dnsmasq to change the SSID and DHCP leases. nginx serves up a simple web page with a short clip from the episode (of a spoonhead uploading a conciousness).
Here’s what’s really interesting: [Tony] is using a captive portal, so something like the webpage that shows up when you log on to the internet in a coffee shop or hotel. When the victim of this prank logs on to The Great Intelligence’s WiFi, they’re presented with a webpage containing the video of the spoonhead.
You can check out [Tony]’s demo of his build after the break.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlQD9sxTsAw&w=580]
That’s fantastic.
Very good! I watched this episode this weekend on the BBC. It’s very funny. I want it too.
I need to figure out how to hack into people using javascript and html still…
fixed (int* ptrMemory = targetMemAddr) {
fixed (int* ptrHuman = Environment.HumanInterfaceDevice) {
for (int i = 0; i < Environment.HumanInterfaceDevice.Length / sizeof(int); i++) {
*ptrMemory = *ptrHuman;
}
}
Ack, forgot to increment the pointer, revision: *ptrMemory = *ptrHuman to *(ptrMemory + i) = *(ptrHuman + i)
Buffer overflow?
There is a hotfix for that: boredom.
Need to allocate the memory dynamically
I want that desktop background image …
+1
Forget the hack, where’s that desktop image?
Found it, or at least part of it:
http://iphone5hdwallpapers.com/nature/house-on-island/
(just click on the image – do NOT click on the “Download” button since it’s for something else)
http://www.all-wallpapers.net/wallpaper/house-on-rock/
Brilliant! Now somebody should go and make a 3D print of it ;-)
Is it just me, or is there something fascinating about small, weird-shaped islands?
Cool, it is a neat wallpaper, very plastic beach-esque
I know this has nothing to do with anything but I think that syllabics just look cool…
http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/photos/2012/02/06/li-iqaluit-stop-sign-cp.jpg
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I love how they were all ‘hacking’ I was laughing thinking about the other thread on worst hacking ever. Kinda reminded me of puppets typing on keyboards…
Although, I would like the Dr.’s mobile phone… maybe Google will add that feature to the next Nexus :)
Its safe to say the writers doing it deliberately here – This is the writer that wrote the end of Sherlock season 2 , which featured possibly the greatest case of being both troupe aware, and trolling the tech crowd.
I wonder… At least in the US, SSIDs using visibly-unicode(obviously ascii, latin1, etc. have been incorporated as subsets for convenience) characters are pretty rare. I wonder how many devices and OSes and horrid vendor wifi utilities there are out there that puke in amusing and/or vulnerable ways if you try some of the more eccentric unicode bits on them?
Probably not many, unless they’re using a completely retarded Vendor-Specific OS/Language stack.. most utilities get the charmap from the Host OS..