I watched this so many times now.
https://twitter.com/lorafrimane/status/981974765543067651?s=21
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I was watching that without headphones on, so couldnāt hear anything, but even just watching the dance I could tell it was the Wii menu music.
We are entering a weird era of video games
Last year I went to a songwriters retreat and a car alarm went off at something like 1AM and someone figured out what key it was in and was jamming with it.
Some MIT students printed out brass rats and did some FRID rejiggering (I know nothing of rfid and the linked pdf goes a bit over my head) to make rings that let them navigate their campus.
It also MAYBE stops the tracking most university students are subjected to. Iām not sure.
Most notable is the swf files for the hollow brass rat, allowing punk kids like me to print one out.
Fun fact local libraries have 3d printers theyāll let ya use.
Okay the hack is cool and all but there is a bigger question here. Why are MIT students being tracked?
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That was my first question as well, however, I think itās a pretty benign form of tracking and furthermore I donāt think this actually circumvents though I could be wrong, I donāt know enough about rfid to say.
The benign form of tracking is the same shit I subjected myself to when I went to RIT, you get a student ID, and then you use that student ID to get into campus buildings. Itās really a security feature and it also allowed me to use my meal plan and other such nonsense common to university students.
When you use said ID to get into buildings it has to know enough about you to know what buildings to let you into. I was allowed into the electrical engineering lab and not the cadaver lab, for instance. Given that the card knows my level of access it also stores other info about me, and logs said info.
In this way I was tracked.
Iāve seen Black Rose Saga too many times to think this goes anywhere good.
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LOL, I think that further motivates me to get them printed and hand them out at cons I meet other geek nights forum goers at.
Oh, if thatās all it is then thatās no different from what I had in college, combination ID/Mealcard/Keycard that only worked on my dorm and a few computer labs. I just see RFID tracking and assume the worst.
omg, you win the thread.
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