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Build Your Own Bluetooth Sniper Rifle
Jim Buzbee writes "I don't think I'd do it, but these guys built a Bluetooth Sniper rifle, went to the roof of a downtown Los Angles skyscraper and pointed it at nearby buildings. See what they found, and if you're so inclined, they'll show how to build your own and maybe, just maybe, you too can snag Paris Hilton's address book." (Which was not snagged via Bluetooth snooping, as the article points out.) This version looks a bit more polished than the one mentioned last August.
I guess we will see some more Paris Hiltin porn very soon.
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Snoop my Apple Bluetooth wireless mouse and switch the button (singular) to right-click.
I think the server just got headshot.
Site is dying. Now they're facing the real test: can you use a Bluetooth rifle against a Slashdot attack? There's one Slashdotter... another one... look, over there! But the battle is hopeless, most Slashdotters are secure in their parents' basement.
how about instead of sniper rifles in a city, binoculars on a nudist beach ?
why do the best inventions always need to be modified to be better.
Business Voyeur
If I build the rifle, can I read their site by bluetooth?
Sometimes boldness is in fashion. Sometimes only the brave will be bold.
How exactly do you plan to kill people with a wee beam of blue light? I dont. But it wouldn't be very hard for someone else to modify the design for more lethal applications.
bash: rtfm: command not found
DARWIN AWARD CANDIDATE 1: Hmm...I wonder if Airforce One has BlueTooth vulnerabilities.
DARWIN AWARD CANDIDATE 2: Hey yeah! Get out your nifty BlueTooth detector thingie!
what is the matter with you fucking people? is it so fucking hard to imagine someone modifying the original design for use with a real fucking gun? step the fuck off!
www.tomsnetnotworking.com
Yes it would. Actually it would be easier to buy a rifle
You know the Tom's Hardware web admin is sitting in a family room somewhere wondering why his pager keeps going off.... Sunday Slashdottings must be one of the most evil things inflictable on a person ;-)
Yeah, no kidding! Gosh, if someone aimed EXACTLY at my blue-tooth cell phone, held up to my ear, by the time the bullet traveled 300 yards it would be AT LEAST 12 inches lower and 2 or 3 inches to either side! HA! The joke is on them!
Eh..
readsite()
{
buildrifle();
}
buildrifle()
{
readsite();
}
main()
{
buildrifle();
}
An Unexpected error has occured: "Stack Overflow"
Report to slasdot? YES|NO
... until someone builds a easy-to-carry and effective laser/microwave-based weapon...
It's 11pm, do you know what your deamons are up to?
if you snooped my slashdot login just now, I know you're within 30 meters
you'll recognize me from my baseball bat and my tinfoil hat
There are no atheists when recovering from tape backup.
"slashdot" did 46723723346844684 damage to "innocent webserver" in 1 hit(s) with the "bluetooth sniper rifle"
head: 46723723346844684
body: 0
arms: 0
legs: 0
By reading this, you have given me brief control of your mind.
True. Voyager 1 was on the order of 23 watts and the last signal was received from over 8 billion miles away. Meanwhile, agents on Proxima Centauri have already begun a global RFID inventory of Wal*Mart stores world-wide in preparation for the invasion. They should have the results sometime late summer 2013.
It certainly looks menacing. I would not stand on top of a building and point it at windows in downtown L.A. if you paid me. A lot.
It doesn't seem very bright to build a rifle-shaped device, and then test it by aiming it from the top of a tall building.
Let me guess, it's powered by a bunch of large batteries, conspicuously wired together in a military-style vest.
While the early version was held together with tie-straps and rubber bands, this newest version has a much more professional look.
Yes, the professional hit man look is exactly what I'm trying to have when I'm searching for vulnerable bluetooth devices.
I love my sig.
I forgot to add: make any such device look like a gigantic Christian cross, not like a sniper rifle. People have a hard time banning crosses and you have a God-given right to point crosses anywhere you please. If it has a Bluetooth antenna at its tip, well, that's just an expression of your religious commitment to communicating with God and your fellow man.
And, whatever you do, don't make it shaped like a 4ft dildo. With sniper rifles, at least the powerful gun lobby will stand behind you. When someone stands behind you while you are pointing a 4ft dildo off a rooftop, it's probably not to protect your civil liberties.
Well, the parabolic issue is just math, so that's no problem.
As for the issue of wind--you could use the cell phone's internet connection to check the weather.
And if you miss? Have the camera snap a photo so you can see where the bullet hit, and compensate for the next shot.
This could be a movie...
The trailer:
[fade in, city street scene, zoom in on businessman's cell phone, it reads 'accessing weather net...']
Raspy Voice Guy: "In a high tech world gone mad, your cell phone can kill you..."
[fast fade out with gunshot sound]
RVG: "From 200 yards away."
[abrupt music 'attack', then fast and disconcerting drums, lot's of quick shots of a normal city street life interspersed with people looking up from their phones to some distant skyscraper window]
RVG: "This summer, in theaters everywhere, your phone bluetooths you."
Imagine my disappointment.
Step 1: Assemble Bluetooth "sniper rifle" according to instructions
Step 2: Remove Bluetooth antenna from assembly.
Step 3: Buy real, working, sniper rifle.
Step 4: Cram Bluetooth antenna up Parent Poster's ass.
Step 5: Use actual gun to shoot people.
(Step 5 void where prohibited by law.)
That's actually a good idea. Here are some things with updated names:
P2P, File sharing == Freedom sharing.
Wardriving, warflying, warjogging == Access Point Liberation.
Bluetooth Sniper Rifle == Terrorist Locator.
I think if we called the thing a Terrorist Locator they'd sell it at Walmart, and my grandmother would buy 9 of them.
Or you could just sell it to the theaters as a solution for cell phone users in the theater annoying other customers.
Linux is not Windows
It's LA. They'll probably just think he's looking for the freeway.
The ______ Agenda
AWP whore!
Freedom: "I won't!"
remind me not to piss you off.
The whole point of TFA is that the "rifle" can connect to bluetooth devices up to 1 km away.
Unfortunately, the gun nuts are all talking about muzzle velocity, flash suppressors, one bullet one kill, etc, and starting brush wars about the 2nd amendment, as is their wont, so no one is actually discussing TFA anyway...
My digital headphones go to 1010.
When you look at the state of the world, how can you not become a radical, liberal anarchist?