Just Don’t Ruin Some Kids Fun, OK?
Shining Mask is an app that controls just about all LED Halloween masks on the market and unfortunately, or perhaps amusingly, they couldn’t be bothered to properly implement a secure connection between the app and a mask. While they did use AES-128 encryption for the connection, they used a fixed key which is publicly available on GitHub. With that key, you can use your version of the Shining Mask app to control any and all LED masks within Bluetooth range.
The person who discovered this has posted the Python script he created to Bishop Fox’s GitHub repository, which will let you control any masks within communications range. In order to properly unify your neighbourhood’s trick or treaters you will need an Adafruit BLE Feather board to act as a controller to run the modified app. Once you are set up you can play some interesting tricks tonight.
Again, don’t use this to upset children but this could be hilarious in the right situations.
