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The Low-End Approach To Wireless Hacking

Posted by timothy on from the not-enough-empty-cans-yet dept.

Adrian writes "Zack Anderson, an MIT student, created a solution to wardriving on a budget: warcarting. The Warcart is a shopping cart retrofitted with just about every sort of wireless sniffing device available. It has pivoting antennas and a smoke grenade launcher. It can even dispense infected USB flash drives. It's part of a talk about subway fare-collection-system vulnerabilities that will be given at Defcon 16 in a few days." "Mostly as a joke," says the site — but only mostly.

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  1. Anyone up for a pool? by MiKM · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm gonna start a pool on how long it takes before the guy using this gets 'detained' or otherwise harassed by the gov't for looking suspicious. I give it a month.

    1. Re:Anyone up for a pool? by Opportunist · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Do you really think any cop on the street can identify that for what it is? I'd rather guess he'll be arrested for pushing around something that looks like a highly sophisticated kind of bomb.

      Later the things you list will be brought up, to avoid making the cop look stupid.

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  2. Uhhh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Only from MIT would something so stupid get so much attention.

  3. Shame on you slashdot by kernelpanicked · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I started looking at the comments before watching the video and every other one was putting this guy down and calling him a douche-$(insertwordhere). After watching the video, it appears that half of Slashdot has no appreciation for feeding the inner geek, and is just pissed off that this guy had live females stop and actually talk to him.

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  4. Brilliant by johndmartiniii · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I concur with some fellow above who noted that we must be losing touch with our inner geek. Even if thing is riddled with illegal shit and the guy who created it is kind of an idiot, cheers to him for indulging himself.

    Then again, this comes from a guy who spends ALL of his spare time making wireless thin clients out of old laptops for mounting in picture frames and other surfaces in his house. Gotta get on that solar power next, this shit is getting expensive.

    The point, to hell with all you nay-sayers. Go back to whatever boring, gainfully-employed thing is is that you are doing while the rest of us have fun.

    ;p

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