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Two Wheeled Wi-Fi Sniffing Robot

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the tom-servo-totally-jealous dept.

paulnuyu writes "ZDNet/MSN has an article about a robot that detects Wi-Fi vulnerabilities and intrusions. The two wheeled robot made by the Shmoo Group cruised around the DefCon convention in Vegas last Sunday, picking up telnet and POP passwords. Though still a prototype, the shipping version is projected to have autonomous steering capabilities."

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  1. Mmmhhh... thats nice by neglige · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now all it need is a way to create those WLAN grafittis. And a way to publish all found passwords on a web-page.

    And while you're at it, give it the ability to create a map of the signal strenght, too...

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  2. Now THIS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is what Bond would use! Imagine him controlling this thing with a cell phone or something. He'd sniff around and get the bad guy's password, go to the hideout, kill the henchmen (and the usual: make stupid jokes and steal the villan's women).

  3. WiFi Robot Wars. by Moosifer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now all they need to do is add an axe or a hammer to it so that it can take out rogue access points.

    1. Re:WiFi Robot Wars. by stienman · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm sorry about your husband, Ma'am, but he was carrying an Ipaq on his person, and said Ipaq was running linux with its wireless card configured as an access point.

      No Ma'am, we are certianly considering changing the flamethrower for a taser or EMP weapon of some sort. Of course we understand - closed casket funerals always raise curiosity. Yes, Ma'am, we'll be sure to do that. Thank you for understanding.

      You get the next one Bob, and remember that it's IPAQ, not IRAQ. You got Mrs Fitz really worked up over that slip-up.

      -Adam

  4. Let me get this straight... by inertia187 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mass produced WiFi sniffing robots that pick up passwords are fine, RFID tags that keep people from stealing things under their clothes are bad. Ok, just so I understand.

    Ok, what if these mass produced WiFi sniffing robots are get sold at WalMart? What then? You'll have a WiFi sniffing robot with a RFID tag. What a dilemma.

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  5. uh oh by selderrr · · Score: 4, Funny

    at 18:18 it went autonomous...

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  6. Two wheeled? Peshaw! by fiftyvolts · · Score: 5, Funny

    When he mods an Aibo so that it actually sniffs around, barks, and then points retriever style to the offending WiFi source then I'll be impressed.

    "What's that boy?"

    "Arf! Arf!"

    "JImmy's unsing unencrypted WiFi?"

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    1. Re:Two wheeled? Peshaw! by frankmu · · Score: 4, Funny

      how about modifying the aibo to pee on the wifi source instead?

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  7. Re:Bait, and false sense of security by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    POP itself isn't insecure auth-wise, and neither is telnet

    reader: Parse error in paragraph 4: Triple negative overflow. Giving up.