Brit hardware hacker turns Raspberry Pi Zeros into selfie slayers
Hipsters and selfie addicts beware: infosec man Steve Lord has crafted a tool designed to sever your line of addiction to Instagram by quietly blocking it over public Wi-Fi.
The British security bod built the Raspberry Pi Zero-powered "hipster slayer" out of nothing more than off-the-shelf components and "questionable life choices." The gizmo will continually deny people's attempts to connect to Instagram and other social media vanity sites.
It works by sniffing for DNS lookups on open wireless networks, and when it detects someone trying to access a hated website, special networking frames are sent to the person's PC or handheld instructing it to immediately leave the network. The vast majority of devices comply with these orders.
