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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.
We realized that Skynet started, not with an evil corporation or secret government project, but with a wise-ass MIT student and a shopping cart.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Pushing a Trolley with intent?
He might try to make a run for it, That's a cop chase I'd like to see on TV....
A learning experience is one of those things that say, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.' - D. Adams
how about the fact that its illegal to operate a scanner outside of your home in most states without an amateur radio license?
40mm smoke grenade launchers, or any for that matter are considered a firearm. discharching one in public will see you sent to jail.
is that 25-1300 antenna modified to exclude cellular bands? what about the receiver? if not, another trip to the jailhouse.
flash drive dropper? littering. in california, violation of prop 65 and EPA standards can apply. you just dropped a little chunk of lead onto the ground after all...
intentionally snooping the 900mhz communications spectrum? jailed.
plus, this cart has the intent to exploit computer systems and networks. thats a violation of federal law.
screw a month, this thing is a rolling prison sentence. i give this shit-whistle a week.
Good people go to bed earlier.
Interior lights add to the intimidation factor of the Warcart.
Yes. Yes, they certainly do.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
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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To clarify, the name war dialing did not come from the movie. It was around long before the movie. The movie did a rather nice job of being accurate with how it worked - until the computer just started speaking on it's own later in the movie.
War dialing turned up interesting results because many locations dropped VT100 onto a POTs line and had no log in authentication. In many cases you would dial up and if you had your emulator set right, you were root.
With most interested in hacking the Internet, I often wonder if these type of open doors have come back into existence. There are many Ethernet->analog line "out of band" maintenance devices being put in place...
FAQ:
Batteries are in the garbage bags hanging of the sides. They are fuel cells that run off cheap booze and the juice from stinky socks. Old cigarette butts are used to filter the fuel. (And for the occasional smoke.)
No, he isn't talking to himself - his Bluetooth headset is really small.
"The Almighty" is the name of his computer and it uses voice recognition.
It's normal for a dedicated hacker to sleep with his system in doorways and skip baths for weeks on end.
The tinfoil attached to his body helps cancel the effect the body has on wireless reception.
Don't worry if you can't understand his language. His intelligence is super advanced, not deficient.