This showed up in email here at The Tech Herald security department. The subject was a link to Bruce Schneier’s blog, and he was linking to Engadget. After some research, the images below are real. The images are a part of a proposal from SternLab for BTIs or Body Technology Interfaces.
Arts and crafts offers new look into hardware security. (IMG:J.Anderson)
The proposal states in part, “Our interactions with personal electronic devices provoke a broad range of emotional states from frustration to confusion to feverish obsession. Increasingly, these devices mediate our everyday work activities, our social network development, and our personal communications. These 'Body-Technology Interfaces,' (BTIs) in the form of hand-knitted custom wrappers for personal electronic devices, will reflect salient interaction behaviors between the participant and their chosen device.”
As you can see, with this rather impressive sock on you get two things; protection from pretty much everyone looking over your shoulder when working and a comfortable warm fuzzy while sweating the latest expense reports at a local airport or coffee house.
MrGadget.com.au apparently started the attention given to SternLab. “My wife forwarded me this link and thought it was a good example of the craft and gadget world colliding…,” the site says.
The down side is best recorded in a comment from Schneier’s blog, “Nice. This makes it really easy to snatch someone's laptop and get a nice woolly jumper in the process.”
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