Nu Vibez and Roleplay Guide Magazine - June 2014 | Page 40

Google Glass, Invasion of the Glassholes? - p3

would say personal privacy is going
to be very challenged by all this
ubiquitous surveillance wear.
This issues of being recorded as you
eat with your family or watch a
comedian at a comedy club is taken
so seriously by some that they have
created counter surveillance
measures to block Glass:
Berlin artist Julian Oliver has
written a simple program
called Glasshole.sh that
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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
G o o g l e G l a s s d e t e c t o r,
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. Wired
contributor Andy Greenberg
(2014).
Julian goes on to say in this piece by
Greenberg:
“To say 'I don't want to be
filmed' at a restaurant, at a