The Low-End Approach To Wireless Hacking

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.

Comments

Re:Class?

[Anonymous Coward]

As an MIT graduate, I also agree. This gets a pretty low score on the "hack" scale.

If you are going to cause a disturbance, at least make it really clever (like making the dome into R2D2) or putting the shell of a police car up there. Taking a shopping cart full of computer equipment into a retail store is just stupid.

Somebody should encourage him to take it up to Logan airport. That would be a great idea. I hope it comes with a bulletproof vest for the operator.

Push!

[snspdaarf]

At the height of the CB craze, and while on a mandatory separation from my car, I mounted a CB on a 10-speed, including a 1/4 wave stainless steel whip antenna. With a spring. I don't remember why. I learned a lot of practical physics with that rig. Newtons laws of motion, angular momentum, all kinds of things when taking a corner with that damn antenna waving around. Also a lot about weight of batteries. The shine will come off this Warcart rather fast.