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Do Evil with ESP8266: Slow Down the WiFi

by Junxiao Shi yoursunny.com published 2016-06-054 min read

While hackers do good most of the time, we occasionally do evil and play a prank. The ESP8266, unlike JSON , allows me to do evil. Thus, I programmed the microcontroller for an evil purpose: slow down the WiFi.

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