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.

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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.