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A Wi-Fi Wardriving Motorbike — With Plans Available
mask.of.sanity writes "This custom Yamaha TRX 850 has been outfitted with wireless sniffing and attack tools, routers, a laptop, Raspberry Pi and even a heads up display integrated within the bike helmet. It was built from open source kit and cheap hardware by a security penetration tester who wanted to make his love of wardriving more nimble. The plans are detailed in a diagram and a video."
The zombies are coming, he'll be ready. Will you?
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Ah, wardriving. It's like 2001 all over again. I remember that long, hot summer. The smell of chalk on concrete, the taste of poorly secured WEP.
Only one thing I see right off that is 'just wrong.' It looks like a stock sony vaio, I would not recommend operating any machine with a hard drive from a bicycle mount personally. A decent netbook with an SSD is going to be far less prone to catastrophic failure from normal use in this application.
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Wireless (cellular) still costs money, and ties your p0rn downloads to you. Sneaking onto some unsuspecting dope's unprotected wifi is much easier.
Still, the story seems a little odd. Penetration tools on a motorbike make no sense. Even at a walking pace, you are out of range before you can penetrate any other station on the network. On an idling bike, you would certainly arose suspicion.
The best you can determine is if it is open or not on a drive by.
But you can do that with any cell phone and Any of several Wardriving tools.
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
You know, I can think of another customized bike ridden by a nerd, and all the adventures he got in trying to recover it after it was stolen. But I don't think Paul Reubens was in the Matrix... Or at least I hope he wasn't... Great, now I have a mental image of Paul Reubens dressed in black leather yelling "Tank! I need an exit! Or my bike!".
"I wanted to combine two things that I really love: Building and riding motorcycles and trashing wireless networks," Andzakovic told delegates at Kiwicon 6.
Guy sounds like a douche if you ask me.
'The tyrant will always find pretext for his tyranny.' - Aesop's Fables
Outfit as one of the 'power line inspection' vans. You can drive nice and slow everywhere and potentially stop for hours at a time. Just get out and look up every hour or two, pad in hand, making notes.
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