Kill Google Glass Wi-Fi With This Google Glass Detector ?

[Monroe]

I admit I really don't too much about the Glass device except for the fact that it seems to be a good spying device on unsuspecting people. Has anyone actually seen someone wearing one of these? I am not 100% sure but I don't think I have, as of yet.

 

I have read that some bars and restaurants don't allow them on the premises, which I completely agree with ... I'm not crazy about someone sitting around recording everything they can see ... with all the other spying going on ... it's beyond enough.

 

I have not heard about casinos ... they never allowed cameras in a casino but now with cell phones mostly all having cameras and now these Google Glass things ... I wonder how that is being handled, if anyone wearing the device would be allowed inside, I would think not.

 

Anyway, a Google Glass Detector program may now exist ... there could be others. May or may not actually work ... from the article.

 

"Oliver’s program is still a mostly-unproven demonstration, though the 40-year-old New Zealand native has successfully tested it by booting Glass off his own studio’s network. More importantly, it shows how the uneasiness with Glass’ social implications could play out as the device hits the mainstream. Bars in San Francisco and Seattle have already banned Glass-wearers. In January, a Glass-headed movie-goer was suspected of piracy and questioned by Homeland Security agents after wearing the device in a theater. And the inventor of a Glass-like augmented reality setup claimed to have been violently thrown out of a Paris McDonald’s in 2012 based on the restaurant’s no-recording policy."

 

Cut Off Glassholes’ Wi-Fi With This Google Glass Detector

 

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/find-and-ban-glassholes-with-this-artists-google-glass-detector/

 

06.03.2014

 

Andy Greenberg

 

Not a fan of Google Glass’s ability to turn ordinary humans into invisibly recording surveillance cyborgs? Now you can create your own “glasshole-free zone.”

 

Berlin artist Julian Oliver has written a simple program called Glasshole.sh that detects any Glass device attempting to connect to a Wi-Fi network based on a unique character string that he says he’s found in the MAC addresses of Google’s augmented reality headsets. Install Oliver’s program on a Raspberry Pi or Beaglebone mini-computer and plug it into a USB network antenna, and the gadget becomes a Google Glass detector, sniffing the local network for signs of Glass users. When it detects Glass, it uses the program Aircrack-NG to impersonate the network and send a “deauthorization” command, cutting the headset’s Wi-Fi connection. It can also emit a beep to signal the Glass-wearer’s presence to anyone nearby.

 

more at the link ...

Edited June 5, 2014 by monroe