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Dutch Hackers Create Wi-Fi Sniffing Drone

Posted by timothy on from the junior-birdman dept.

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.

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  1. I want a hunter-killer drone... by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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    When information is power, privacy is freedom.
  2. Turns out there is one fatal flaw by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    if the drone finds an open network it tends to crash because its too busy looking at roboporn to actually control itself.

  3. lolcatz' caption by FishTankX · · Score: 4, Funny

    im in ur hotspot
    sniffin' ur pornz

  4. Re:Link is to Flash - boooo! by zbyg · · Score: 3, Funny
    Did you forget about the great features of Flash? If you choose Flash over HTML, you get:
    • up to 90% shorter page loading times, because Flash is compiled and HTML is not
    • increased security, because browsers are insecure, and plugins are secure by default
    • unbelievable and very powerfull accesibility features
    • a page which works and looks the same in any browser running on any computer

    /sarcasm

  5. Re:Did it actually fly? Broken wing. by shadowrat · · Score: 2, Funny

    They usually start out fine, but my act incorporates torches and chainsaws.