Hey All - I thought NYC Wireless folks might be interested...Here's info on my latest project - Wifi-Hog - I will be giving a talk about this and more of my projects in NYC in two weeks at the Upgrade! @ Eyebeam on Tuesday, August 26th around 7:30pm Hope people can make it out Jonah WIFI-HOG - 2003 Keep public WiFi nodes to yourself! Description * Wi-Fi Hog is personal system for a laptop or portable computer that enables people to gain complete control over a public access wireless network. The idea comes as a reaction to the utopian vision of wireless networks being open, shared, and utilitarian for everyone. * Aimed specifically at public wireless nodes, the WiFi Hog system exists as a laptop connected to a Portable Video Jammer (PVJ) that communicates to software consisting of a packet sniffer and wireless stumbler which monitors incoming packets from an open node. Only traffic originating from the Wifi-Hogger's IP address may access the connection, otherwise the PVJ is switched on, blocking others from accessing the open node. * The project attempts to discover if adding constraints on a network and making access to it more competitive and "territorial" changes the relationships between people who use the network. For more detials (including pics) see : URL: http://www.coin-operated.com/projects ------------------------------------------------------------ Design/Conept/Hardware by Jonah Brucker-Cohen Research Fellow Human Connectedness Group Media Lab Europe Dublin, Ireland http://www.coin-operated.com http://www.coin-operated.com/projects email all to comments and questions to: jonah@coin-operated.com -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ ----- End forwarded message -----