You gotta touch the banana for Wi-Fi access

[xxMATTGxx]

Just came across this article via twitter and thought it was pretty cool and funny:

“You gotta touch the banana” for Wi-Fi access, says sys admin

Here’s how it worked: The banana was wired to a Makey Makey circuit board and a cheap Raspberry Pi computer that dispensed an 8-hour personal password for guests to access the company’s captive Wi-Fi portal when a finger touch to the fruit authentication system provided the necessary micro-charge.

What’s more, Danish network engineer Stefan Milo swore at one point that the banana was there to stay – it would never get swapped out, even after reaching the age of rich, compost-worthy brown.... (READ THE FULL ARTICLE FOR PHOTOS AND MORE INFO)

Article: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/201...ays-sys-admin/

Thoughts?

[ha2thesad]

It sounds like something the Danish would come up with. Cool idea though, even cooler if they could make the UI more user friendly. Make it not look like a Terminal, if you know what I mean.