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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. Too much free time... by edsousa · · Score: 0, Troll

    ... and too much beer.
    College kids :P (and this is a smart one)

  2. Suicide attempt? by mrboyd · · Score: 1, Troll

    I am almost certain that trying to enter or get close to any subway, airport, train station or even walking around in the street will get whoever is pushing the cart shot.