Two Wheeled Wi-Fi Sniffing Robot

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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write again?

[Anonymous Coward]

the greed/fear based corepirate georgewellians, instead of offering bounty (we can't afford) for the hides of other members of the walking dead contingent, might want to redirect some of yOUR remaining (dwindling) resources towards providing, at least for the babies, those cute little plastic suits, which may allow for many of them the continue breathing, should the air go funny in spots. you morons requested that some time ago, with no response forthcoming from the evile wons, corewrecked?

Re:Bait, and false sense of security

[Anonymous Coward]

Did it occur to anyone that maybe those passwords were bait? No better way to catch a scriptkiddie than to make him think he's hit a goldmine. He runs home, logs into that honeypot, and the cops are on his doorstep the next day. Do not pass go, do not collect $200, 'd00d'.

fucking narc.

PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS

[Matt_Fisher]

What drive someone to do all this work to make somehting that looks for open connections.. Is this so all theses people that drive around with there laptops in the city looking for open connections can sit on the couch or get a real job?? I dont mean to affend but I am confussed about this topic please help me better understand what is so important about finding free internet access or breaking into some 45 year old Wi-Fi network when he doesn't even know what a IP is???