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Dutch Hackers Create Wi-Fi Sniffing Drone
An anonymous reader writes "The WASP, or Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform, has been built out of a hobby-grade airframe and open source Ardupilot autopilot, reports sUASnews. In the words of the Rabbit-Hole website, it's a 'Small Scale, Open Source UAV using off the shelf components. Designed to provide a vehicle to project cyber-offensive and defensive capabilities, and visual / electronic surveillance over distance cheaply and with little risk.'" Want a drone of your own? The makers have some pointers to helpful resources.
The photoslides end with a mere broken wing on the takeoff strip. Did it actually fly?
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If you can't work out how to do this yourself without this article, it's going to be of no use to you anyway.
Aren't all remote control aircraft (hobbyist planes in particular) UAV's?
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With lasers attached to it's head.
But... does it have the cyber capabilities to take down Wikileaks?
This is cool, I love that the science fiction future is so present in our world right now, and the power of 'it is possible, so we did it this way' I am quite amused by the quote" You don’t have to join too many dots for potential misuse." and I look forward to outrageous innovative uses by paparazzi, peeping toms, pervs, police, pyromaniacs, pilferers, pidgeon racers......
Waiting for the other shoe to...
What the hell? The link is to a flash applet that displays photos. WTF? Flash is on the way out as a technology, and unnecessarily using it for a photo gallery when HTML works just fine is one of the primary sins of idiots. And the photos are what, 100x150? Boo! Boo! Bad flash, bad developers!
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It would have been nice to have a few camera-bearing drones bopping around over the recent G-20 meeting in Toronto, out of the immediate reach of gentlemen with badges, batons and guns. The police seem oddly selective about video evidence they use in court and video evidence that somehow goes missing whenever the defense requests it.
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Though I'm sure "real spy drones" already have this sort of capability, along with being able to sniff other spectrums. I guess you could use it to deliver payloads to wifi clients/routers and perform automated MITM attacks, but how are you supposed to use it as an antenna extender without using another longer-range wireless system to communicate with it? Using it to locate wifi clients seems redundant as they don't have that much of a range anyway, unless you couldn't locate the access point for some reason.
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How about a hunter-killer drone that sniffs out other drones, homes in on their telemetrics and blows them up in a blazing fireball of glory!
That's the kind of shit I want to see.
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if the drone finds an open network it tends to crash because its too busy looking at roboporn to actually control itself.
Enemy UAV spotted!
I would give everything i own for a little bit more.
im in ur hotspot
sniffin' ur pornz
It's not cyber-offensive until it comes with an ECM burst transmitter, GPS spoofing and transmits live video of police beatings to wikileaks. It's also not cyber-defensive unless the wifi is properly secured.
When professional surveillance platforms come about I hope to see light missile launchers for anti-surveillance duties. Non-exploding warhead of course, just pellets or something to knock the thing out of the air.
And where are the hardpoints for Hellfire missiles? Ah, cyber-offensive capabilities...
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Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
As that thing does not even seem to fly and people always like to see movies, check: http://ng.uavp.ch/ for a huge amount of information about NG-UAVP's (Next Generation Universal Areal Video Platform) of course all open source hard and software.
Multiple videos of WORKING drones over here: http://ng.uavp.ch/moin/Videos
Also, don't forget to check this cool cyber-cute overload: Quadrocopter Drone Has Its Own Little Home :)
Btw, what is so special about adding a wireless card/stick to a drone and letting it sniff the airwaves? :)
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What's the difference between this and Google sniffing wi-fi, and getting flack for it? Makes no sense why Google gets whacked for something like this.
if i see some little drones buzzing my home i will turn the garden hose on it.
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Is it difficult to pilot because the Dutch makers forgot to give it a rudder?
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Were they Dutch or were they White Anglo Saxon Protestants?
Is that anything like the opium-smoking drones of the 19th Century or the cocaine-sniffing drones of today?
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Water pressure isn't quite up to swatting RC planes at my house.
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This would be ninja-class awesome when scaled down to delfly micro scale
Ahh, the age of cheap home-built UAVs. All sorts of applications. Like this wi-fi sniffing, which is pretty neat.
But strap a modestly sized brick of C-4 and you have yourself a (very slow) smart missile.
They aren't Dutch (no offense to the Dutch), they are Americans. It does a whole lot more than wireless sniffing as well, in the video they said it has BackTrack4 onboard and cellular broadband. If you have used Backtrack you will know that's a lot more than a war-flying machine!
...when the inevitable OSS database on wi-fi info pops up? What then, Herr AC?
I could do this much more anonymously and inexpensively with a backpack, a laptop, a GPS, and a pair of walking shoes. UAVs attract attention because, no matter who is launching them, people are generally suspicious that they're up to no good.
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