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by romwell
3145 days ago
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>Yes, it probably is. Is it hacking? Yes, it's hacking. It utilizing something (shoe heels) in a way that was not intended by the people who designed it to solve a problem. Putting a router into a shoe that has storage isn't hacking. Changing the shoe to make it possible is. >My problem is that people [...] think her work is more interesting that it actually is. Ah, my apologies then. Of course, there is an objective, intrinsic metric that measures how interesting something is, and you clearly are someone with the ability to compute it, unlike the unwashed masses, who are all wrong, and are definitely guilty of the sin of finding something more interesting than you do. It is especially daunting since never in the history of humanity, and especially on Hackernews, has interest in something been connected to the person who made it in any way. |
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> Putting a router into a shoe that has storage isn't hacking. Changing the shoe to make it possible is.
She didn't change any shoes, she 3D printed them. And she called them "3D printed platform heels for hackers", and claimed that she made them to be used for pentesting. Here you go, the first image from her pentesting gallery posted to r/diy, r/hacking, and r/lockpicking: https://i.imgur.com/7aiOCYR.jpg Out of 37 images there are 5 that shows the build process.
I'm not trying to put down the shoes themselves, she has a whole backstory constructed for how they could be used and the reasoning behind them. I still think a lot of people find some parts of the gallery more interesting than the actual work being displayed, and she knows that. How many would find a gallery of a pair of 3D printed shoes as interesting if it only had pictures of said shoes?
I find that most times interest on Hackernews is centered on a person it's because of that persons previous achievements or demonstrated technical ability, not their appearance. Her work isn't particularly interesting in isolation (maybe I should add IMO for much needed clarity), yet here we are with a big Hackernews discussion thread about a post made by Bunnie Huang about a post by the CEO of Maker Media, all centered on her.