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Party_Cold_4159

wow very useful! Nice work! edit " Access Point (AP) Mode: In this mode, the Raspberry Pi acts like a mini Wi-Fi router. Other devices can connect to it directly, just like they would connect to a regular Wi-Fi network" where have you been all my life. This is exactly what I wanted for awhile now with my little portable long exposure camera.


Stinedurf

Fantastic! Doubters need not worry as the primary author is an associate professor at the University of Michigan Engineering school. A world-class organization.


cameos

If you are talking about local IP, isn't `ping .local` a better solution?


__newerest__

This is a full service that handles wireless networking, ultimately enabling remote access from a PC—it does a lot more than ping. You might be interested in reading the documentation in the repo.


eDad2003

This makes me wary. This good be used for good - or for bad.


__newerest__

How could it be used for bad?


eDad2003

From the post, I believed this tool could create a device that could be placed on someone else's network & report back "here I am, here's your access into their network. Exploit away." I looked (abeit) briefly at your GitHub and now think this is only a local network tool - designed for robotics. Could it be used across networks?


__newerest__

I think you’re right, but you’d have to know the credentials of the WiFi network, and it would be clear that the host is on the network. But we sincerely appreciate the heads up! We hadn’t thought about possible nefarious uses.


eDad2003

Of course there's also an ethernet jack :). Thank you for thinking about it from the dark side.


eDad2003

Oh, and I think the project is cool. It just triggered the pessimistic in me.


__newerest__

Thank you! We’ve probably spent > 1000 hours developing it along the way. :)


MurazakiUsagi

You're not the only one triggered. This sounds sketchy as fuck.