Cut Off Glassholes

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The GREAT initiative of New Zealand born German artist Julian Oliver to put a bash script up on the internet that people can use to kick Google Glass devices from Wi-Fi networks, has made quite a ripple.

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

The website where the script was made available, is 403-ing for the moment. That means that either it was under attack, blocked, or that it was flooded.

For the benefit of mankind and human rights and for the resistance against Google's fourth Reich, I just wanted to mention that it's really easy to kick Google Glass, in that all Google Glass devices have MAC addresses starting with F8:8F:CA:24 and F8:8F:CA:25, so you basically have to kick all devices on the network you can connect to that start with these MAC addresses anywhere you go, using a standard deauth attack with aireplay-ng (aireplay-ng -0 0 to prevent reauthentication).

This is legal on your own networks, but depending on your jurisdiction might be illegal on other networks, so check the rules applicable where you are before having it run all the time on your phone to kick all Glassholes everywhere you go or something.

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That is genius.

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Surrender your rights to Google!

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that's being unfair to google glass. what happened to a free and open internet?

 

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Sometimes, I do not know when you are trolling xD

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haha rule of thumb, is almost AWAYS lol

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Don't you know? If you are using non-free (as in not free beer) software and hardware, you are a second-class citizen of the open internet and are not entitled to all rights of FOSS master race.

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Users of Google glass usually have them pared with there phone over Bluetooth. So cutting off there Wi Fi connection will cause them to switch to BT and use the phones network or Wi Fi.

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I don't know... Is this really necessary? Why would you want to speak to a glasshole anyway? If you cut off their Glass' internet, they will probably just take their phone out.

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Actually, i think zoltan is right about google being the Fourth Reich. Google will continue to invade every aspect of everyones life that links to the internet if we dont stop google. You giggle now. If you dont take it seriously, you will be crying later.

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I, for one, welcome our new Google overlords.

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I know this was sort of a joke, but in all seriousness, is it not hypocritical to say that there is NO Google Glass allowed on your own home network, or small buisiness network, WHILE SIMULTANEOUSLY demanding that Comcast or w/e shouldnt be able to discriminate traffic?

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Google glass = free mobile snitches. Best part the snitches pay google to be snitches.  Edit: I would personally have less of a problem with google glass if it could be guaranteed that said pics/video would remain private to the user. ( But we cant say that can we?) Linking to random wi-fi sources and such. Storing stuff in the cloud. Mobile security through your cell phone provider. ( Think of how much cell phone records the nsa has now?) Governments stamping out encryption services.

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Oh no! Nothing like that! All citizens have equal rights to start out with, but...

If you are using closed source software, you're not taking control of your computer, and your voluntarily not exercising your rights as a free citizen of society, and you only have yourself to blame.

Nobody is responsible for all of the jackasses that are to dumb not to crap in their own garden, and then complain that they can't leave their house anymore and that it stinks. In the words of Adam Curry from No Agenda: "Is this what the technological revolution has come to: Facebook and Netflix?" Well yeah, and we've got locked down impotent software consoles like Windows to thank for that, because they're fucking useless to actually leverage the technological revolution, in fact, they're specifically made to prevent people from leveraging the technological evolution and to make people just squander around idly.

Fact: every time you waive a right, it will take a hell of a lot of effort (mostly by others) to get you that right back. The entire freedom and power of the Internet is squandered on dumb arses that would kill to be able to rush eyes open into honey traps, but forget that the people they bully or offend or worse on their way in, are the people that will have to move heaven and earth to pull them back out again when the shit has really hit the fan.

Being smart is a burden, a responsibility, it's never ending hard and ungrateful work, but it's still gratifying. Being dumb is a lottery, you hope to come out a winner, or to not lose too much, but even for those that win, it's never gratifying, it's diverting at best.

Why can monopolistic ISP's, Google and Microsoft etc get such a grip on the American society? Because people don't enforce their rights, they're like deer caught in the headlights of a lorry that's racing out to get them. Then when the shit hits the fan, instead of choosing to stop being dumb arse corporate bait, they persevere in their stupidity and insist on bashing, ridiculing and dismissing the deer that aren't caught in the headlights and try to help them out from the forest.

People that already know what others still have to find out, the smart deer, do not use dumb arse self-medicating painkiller slogans like "PC Master Race aka MS-Windows Herrenvolk" that only prove the ignorance of the slogan shouter, they get ready for bailing out as many dumb arse deer as they can save before the lorry crushes them.

 

If an artist has to put up a readily-made aircrack-ng script to protect artistic assets and human rights, how far has this gotten? Think about this... this should never have been necessary in the first place had the people that were supposed to take their responsibility, have actually taken their responsibility. This has now gotten an air of civil disobedience and activism, but that's just unfair... how is it that people are seen as being civil disobedient or in the US and UK even "terrorists" if they prevent mass violation of human rights by ignorant corporate drones? It has nothing to do with civil disobedience, the glassholes are the ones violating citizen rights and breaking the most holy of laws, they should have been arrested in the first place, because it's just wrong in so many ways.

 

And by the way, the website with the script is back up again: http://julianoliver.com/output/log_2014-05-30_20-52

Use these human rights protection tools in a legal manner! Using them illegally would negate the very principle why these tools exist and would mean that you're no better than the mass human rights violating corporations you're defending the people against!

Use these human rights protection tools cleverly! Don't cause huge costs for yourself. Standalone low power devices capable of running scripts like these, are available for as little as 7 EUR per piece. Many venues, university auditoria, research facilities with IP rights to defend, etc... implement these techniques already. People with a rooted linux phone can easily secure their environment on public wifi networks wherever they go, if protecting one's rights in that way is legal in your jurisdiction.

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"There are "extremists" in the free software world, but that's one major reason why I don't call what I do "free software" any more. I don't want to be associated with the people for whom it's about exclusion and hatred."