Want To Work Without Prying Eyes? Try Wearing a Body Sock 75
Nerval's Lobster writes The "Compubody Sock," which anyone with knitting skills can make at home, is a giant sock-hoodie-bag in which you place your laptop or tablet, along with your head and hands, giving you total privacy while freaking out anyone who happens to be sitting next to you. Designer Becky Stern told Forbes' Kashmir Hill that the Sock was meant more as commentary on privacy and device addiction; even so, considering how NSA employees reportedly drape themselves in hoods in order to thwart hidden cameras while typing in passwords, it's not outside the realm of possibility that an ultra-paranoid someone could find a practical use for a body sock. But that paranoid android better have expert knitting skills: putting together the Sock necessitates a whole lot of steps ("Purl 5, purl 2 together, purl 1, turn the work," etc.). Your other option, of course, is to simply avoid working on sensitive stuff in public.
Re:That anyone can knit at home? (Score:5, Funny)
I thought everyone on Slashdot knew Perl.
haven't they heard of knithub.com (Score:2, Funny)
Nobody knits from scratch anymore. First you get the GoodHood Framework, spend a few days learning how it works and trying the samples. Then you realize it depends on the Backpurl and Emblazon knitting frameworks , so you Google for those and realize you can only get it in pink but you need the red version. Oh, but you can go back one point release on the GoodHood framework and then pink will work ok, even if it looks like shit.
Then you need to have Needles 2.0 to stitch it all together, but your knitting room is outfitted with Needles 1.5 that your still using for another unfinished knitting masterpiece. Damn! You realize you're going to need to create a whole new knitting room just for this project.... and now you're already delayed. ..
Re:There's this thing called a (Score:4, Funny)
That's why I've got a trace buster buster [youtube.com]