Google Glass Detector Cuts Off Glassholes’ Wi-Fi

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This guy has come up with a brilliant way of dealing with glassholes.

Glasshole.sh 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. 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.
 
Smart hacking a device that belongs to someone else - isn't that a federal offence even?

just my 0.02€
 
Smart hacking a device that belongs to someone else - isn't that a federal offence even?

just my 0.02€

No, it's protecting your privacy of being put on the internet via video and audio. The Glass is an invasion of privacy. So if someone near me starts beeping, I would know they are one of these Glasswipes and stay away.
 
No, it's protecting your privacy of being put on the internet via video and audio. The Glass is an invasion of privacy. So if someone near me starts beeping, I would know they are one of these Glasswipes and stay away.

Yea because we cant do the exact same thing with our cell phones right? If you're out in public you have no privacy, get over it.
 
No, it's protecting your privacy of being put on the internet via video and audio. The Glass is an invasion of privacy. So if someone near me starts beeping, I would know they are one of these Glasswipes and stay away.

You haven't thought this through to much have you?
 
One day, when I'm packing the next gen Glass product and I roll into a place that does this, I'm nailing them for a CFAA violation and the civil equivalent (trespass?), collecting a big check, and smiling all the way to the bank while I watch the idiot pay up to the feds at the same time.
 
What's funny is that I'm sure a lot of cavemen had the very same reaction to fire the first time they encountered someone using it.

And then some enterprising backwater neanderthal invented BucketOfWater.sh which would snuff out the would be "Firehole's" method of cooking up their wild game or whatnot and was all proud of himself. Then he went back to eating his raw meat and died from whatever parasitic disease he injested, while the "Firehole" just built a new fire, cooked up his kill and he and his family moved on out of the stone age.
 
Am I missing something? What's the big deal with cutting the device's wifi? Unless I'm missing something, it's not like this would even stop any recording anyway. It would just preclude a live-streaming, postponing an upload till later.
 
No, it's protecting your privacy of being put on the internet via video and audio. The Glass is an invasion of privacy. So if someone near me starts beeping, I would know they are one of these Glasswipes and stay away.

Your own logic destroys you. If they "start beeping" that means they are offline, and can't sit there and upload pics of you to the web. (because we ALL want pics of you, just you, sitting there, acting like the common every day fool)

ProTip: if you are in public and I want your picture.... I can take it! That's why it's called public. You are free to skirt this fact by locking yourself in mom's basement and never coming out if you feel that strongly about it.



If someone really wants to take pics or video of you... there are 100 better ways to go about it. Ways in which you would never actually know or even suspect. There are spy cameras integrated into normal hipster looking glasses frames, cameras that fit inside of shirt buttons, or necklaces. If someone wants your picture, there isn't a damn thing you can do to stop me except keep your ass out of the public space. What's next? I'm not allowed to look at you while you are standing in line? Dare not talk to you or strike up a conversation.

You complaining about no privacy *in public* is like me going to an all vegan restaurant and bitching there is no prime rib. You just look really really stupid.
 
One day, when I'm packing the next gen Glass product and I roll into a place that does this, I'm nailing them for a CFAA violation and the civil equivalent (trespass?), collecting a big check, and smiling all the way to the bank while I watch the idiot pay up to the feds at the same time.
Perfect example that Glassholes are trolls.

It will never be acceptable, don't expect laws not to catch up. Get over it.
 
Yea because we cant do the exact same thing with our cell phones right? If you're out in public you have no privacy, get over it.

Public, yes...but that means property owned by the public (meaning a government institution) and not privately owned property. A mall, store, restaurant, hotel, or whatever else is privately owned and persons on privately owned property have a reasonable expectation for privacy which is why the owner of said property is perfectly within their rights to ban Glass or deny service to the owner of Glass who fails to comply. The same owner can also serve that person with a criminal trespass warning.

That basically limits the right of use to public streets and sidewalks or government buildings and whatnot. To expand that definition of public will fundamentally alter the concept of privacy and that's not likely to happen just because owners of Glass (or cell phone cameras) feel they're entitled to photograph, record, or even operate the device anywhere they please.
 
No, it's protecting your privacy of being put on the internet via video and audio. The Glass is an invasion of privacy. So if someone near me starts beeping, I would know they are one of these Glasswipes and stay away.

So you need a beep to notice? The massive headset in the guys face wouldn't be enough of an indication that they have one? If they've hidden it, then it's no different from having a cellphone or any other hidden wearable cameras.

And you don't have privacy in public spaces anyway. It's why they're called "public" spaces. If you want privacy, stay in your house.

The crazy thing about the whole anti-glass movement is that they object to people carrying very conspicuous devices, so that it's impossible for them to hide what they're doing if they start taping, when it's trivial to get concealed cameras for cheaper than what glass costs. If anyone wanted to go around taping people, they already can. You're just "stopping" the people who wouldn't bother to do it in the first place.

Glass has other uses aside from being a camera which are more useful, and other problems that could be more complex, but everyone is obsessed with the camera instead.
 
So can I run around smashing peoples iPhones and sunglasses claiming they were recording me then or on the wifi's.
 
lets look at the bigger picture here this tech can be repurposed for denying any manufactures device on wifi
 
Yea, I don't really get the hate. Folks have video and cameras on their cell phones and are using them constantly. No one runs over and says, "Hey lady! You recorded me, delete that photo!" Suddenly, because it's strapped to a pair of glasses, it's this big problem.

It will never be acceptable, don't expect laws not to catch up. Get over it.
It's acceptable now! When I ride the rain, everyone's on their phones, and those phones are all pointed at everyone else. No one can know if they are recording, taking pictures etc. It's the SAME THING. But no one gets all butt hurt about cell phones.
And if you really think it's going to be legal to hack someone else's device, EVER, I think you don't understand the law, lawmakers, or the powers that be.
 
As awesome as I think this is, I can see federal charges being put on this, same as the cellphone jammer guy. How would it be any different?
 
well I think any private organisation or person can stop whatever devices they like from connecting to their network which is what this does in around-about way. its not jamming anything afaik the glass could still connect to another wifi network unless I read the article wrong.
 
Am I missing something? What's the big deal with cutting the device's wifi? Unless I'm missing something, it's not like this would even stop any recording anyway. It would just preclude a live-streaming, postponing an upload till later.

This is the only intelligent comment on this issue. what this fool did does NOTHING to stop data recording. They would simply fall back to the connection with the smartphone.
 
its not jamming anything afaik the glass could still connect to another wifi network unless I read the article wrong.
It kicks the user off whatever network they are connected to. I guess you might call this jamming.
 
This should make for an interesting legal case, is a property owner allowed to tamper with the property of those within the premises, be it google glass, cellphone or bra straps.
 
This should make for an interesting legal case, is a property owner allowed to tamper with the property of those within the premises, be it google glass, cellphone or bra straps.

That is an interesting one, but it's not quite that simple. The property owner, in using this method to jam a signal, isn't tampering with a physical thing like a bra strap. It's manipulation of a emitted signal or just the energy transmitted from the device. Since bra straps don't emit signals (seriously, they don't...they're like radio dead spots and probably stabbity-knifey-make-you-a-dead-spot too) you can't really compare the two situations.
 
That is an interesting one, but it's not quite that simple. The property owner, in using this method to jam a signal, isn't tampering with a physical thing like a bra strap. It's manipulation of a emitted signal or just the energy transmitted from the device. Since bra straps don't emit signals (seriously, they don't...they're like radio dead spots and probably stabbity-knifey-make-you-a-dead-spot too) you can't really compare the two situations.

Agreed. I guess there are two issues though:

1- The cutting wifi. This is no problem Ostensibly the property owner is providing the wifi for free. He's free to disable that service at his own whim all he wants. His property, his decision.

2- The beep. This is a whole different barrel of monkeys. This is an active tampering with physical property, and is much closer to the above examples. You're causing my property to do something I don't want it to do. That's a CFAA violation and likely trespass (of chattels).
 
Agreed. I guess there are two issues though:

1- The cutting wifi. This is no problem Ostensibly the property owner is providing the wifi for free. He's free to disable that service at his own whim all he wants. His property, his decision.

2- The beep. This is a whole different barrel of monkeys. This is an active tampering with physical property, and is much closer to the above examples. You're causing my property to do something I don't want it to do. That's a CFAA violation and likely trespass (of chattels).

I must have misread the article. I thought the beep was being emitted by the Raspberry Pi that was doing the disconnecting to notify the Pi's operator that it's actually doing it's thing and not Glass that's beeping because of a disconnection.
 
1- The cutting wifi. This is no problem Ostensibly the property owner is providing the wifi for free. He's free to disable that service at his own whim all he wants. His property, his decision.
The program disconnects the glasses user from whatever network they are on. You don't need to be the administrator. This is illegal under existing laws.

2- The beep. This is a whole different barrel of monkeys. This is an active tampering with physical property, and is much closer to the above examples. You're causing my property to do something I don't want it to do. That's a CFAA violation and likely trespass (of chattels).
The beep doesn't come from the glasses; it comes from the person running the script.
 
No, it's protecting your privacy of being put on the internet via video and audio. The Glass is an invasion of privacy. So if someone near me starts beeping, I would know they are one of these Glasswipes and stay away.

What expectation of privacy do people have when they are in the public?
 
What expectation of privacy do people have when they are in the public?

The privacy granted by the limitations of the human eye, memory, ability to recount or recreate events and images that existed when that sentiment was first made.
 
The irony here is I'm willing to bet that everybody here would be bitching to high heaven if the police were "jamming" recording devices in public in an effort to stop people from recording them.
 
I must have misread the article. I thought the beep was being emitted by the Raspberry Pi that was doing the disconnecting to notify the Pi's operator that it's actually doing it's thing and not Glass that's beeping because of a disconnection.
The beep doesn't come from the glasses; it comes from the person running the script.
I stand corrected. /misread

The program disconnects the glasses user from whatever network they are on. You don't need to be the administrator. This is illegal under existing laws.
Also, AH, I read the article thinking this is something an owner of, say, a bar or coffee shop would do to prevent Glass from utilizing the wifi.

Well sign me up for the poor reading skills of the day award. :eek:
 
The irony here is I'm willing to bet that everybody here would be bitching to high heaven if the police were "jamming" recording devices in public in an effort to stop people from recording them.

Yeah, as police doing their public duty out in public and regular people which will see these GG's used on private properties (bars, malls, etc) a lot are somehow very equivalent. Irony, yes. Good word! Or just completely different all together.
 
Yeah, as police doing their public duty out in public and regular people which will see these GG's used on private properties (bars, malls, etc) a lot are somehow very equivalent. Irony, yes. Good word! Or just completely different all together.

Considering private property owners can simply request GG wearers leave their headsets at the door or leave the property, I can only see this applying to public places anyways.

Try again.
 
So, since the author Glasshole.sh is in Berlin, anyone here know German law and how privacy in public spaces apply there?
 
Considering private property owners can simply request GG wearers leave their headsets at the door or leave the property, I can only see this applying to public places anyways.

If they happen to spot them in large crowds or want to alienate people based on their technology choices . Either way it still doesn't equate to cops trying hide their potential abuse when their job is all about being in the public eye. Especially as cops are known for taking phones illegally just to save face. Apples to Oranges.

Try again

I don't have to.
 
That is an interesting one, but it's not quite that simple. The property owner, in using this method to jam a signal, isn't tampering with a physical thing like a bra strap. It's manipulation of a emitted signal or just the energy transmitted from the device. Since bra straps don't emit signals (seriously, they don't...they're like radio dead spots and probably stabbity-knifey-make-you-a-dead-spot too) you can't really compare the two situations.


Except they aren't jamming anything. They are exploiting a weakness in the wifi protocol itself. They sending fake packets to the device which causes it to disconnect itself and reconnect. This is the same thing hackers use to try and break into WPA secured APs. This guy just filters by MAC addresses that google used for the GG devices, and forces them to keep disconnecting/reconnecting.
 
If they happen to spot them in large crowds or want to alienate people based on their technology choices . Either way it still doesn't equate to cops trying hide their potential abuse when their job is all about being in the public eye. Especially as cops are known for taking phones illegally just to save face. Apples to Oranges.

I don't have to.

If you're blocking someone from wifi just because they have Google Glass, you ARE alienating them, just in an underhanded way (i.e. you're a coward that doesn't want to rock the boat). In the meantime, everybody else that has a cell phone can take pictures and video at their own whim...and the glass person can do the same thing with their cell phone.

Argument and practical use failed. Try again. You have 1 life left.
 
This is just getting fucking irritating

I would like to know the difference between google glass and smart phones, other than one you wear on your face, the other you hold in front of your face
 
If you're blocking someone from wifi just because they have Google Glass, you ARE alienating them, just in an underhanded way (i.e. you're a coward that doesn't want to rock the boat). In the meantime, everybody else that has a cell phone can take pictures and video at their own whim...and the glass person can do the same thing with their cell phone.

Argument and practical use failed. Try again. You have 1 life left.

And this has what to do with equating it to cops again?

Oh yeah, nothing.
 
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