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Comment by lloeki | Hacker News Reader

Missing the point. That line doesn't do anything by itself.

Obviously we're not going to have Wireshark innards built with 10 lines of python (or whatever other language). However, the fact that such an easy to use, high level library available for packet inspection allowing one to build a quick AP scanner is completely relevant.

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My point is that the title is not really useful. Something along the lines of 'Using the Scapy library for wireless packet inspection' would be more reasonable. All this 'whatever with N lines' articles when you are using a 200MB tool stack really makes no sense. This is not a 1k demo where character count matters at all.

It makes total sense when you want to actually sit down and write something like this. The point is that this is an easy, quick-to-hack-together thing, not a big project.

Good grief! Do you want this team to build the computer from discrete components, then custom code their OS using dip switches too?

Of course not, that's an absurd exaggeration.

As long as they used less than 10 dip switches

> My point is that the title is not really useful.

For a developer, knowing how many lines are needed to get something done with a given API can be a good indicator of how generally nice it is to work with -- compare Python's URLLib vs the Requests library, for example.

This is why his grievance wasn't with the text but the title.

adplz, I can do wifi ssid sniffing using 0 lines of code and only using my mouse. Oh yeah, and Wireshark. But that is irrelevant according to lloeki.

Finally, one person on HN who gets it :) Pleased to meet you another sane person on HN! :)

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