| Submit your comments on this article |
| -Short Attention Span Theater- |
| Men Build Small Flying Spy Drone That Cracks Wi-Fi And Cell Data |
| 2011-08-03 |
| Pics at site The safety of Wi-Fi networks may be in danger from small threats flying above us. An airplane hobby shop owner and an ex-Air Force official team up to create a drone that cracks into Wi-Fi and cell phones. Built by Mike Tassey and Richard Perkins, the Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform (otherwise known as the WASP) is a flying drone that has a 6-foot wingspan, a 6-foot length and weighs in at 14 pounds. The small form factor of the unmanned aerial vehicle allows it to drop under radar and is often mistaken for a large bird. It was built from an Army target drone and converted to run on electric batteries rather than gasoline. It can also be loaded with GPS information and fly a predetermined course without need for an operator. Taking off and landing have to be done manually with the help of a mounted HD camera, though. However, the most interesting aspect of the drone is that it can crack Wi-Fi networks and GSM networks as well as collect the data from them. It can accomplish this feat with a Linux computer on-board thatÂ’s no bigger than a deck of cards. The computer accesses 32GB of storage to house all that stolen data. It uses a variety of networking hacking tools including the BackTrack toolset, as well as a 340-million-word dictionary to guess passwords. In order to access cell phone data, the WASP impersonates AT&T and T-Mobile cell phone towers and fools phones into connecting to one of the eleven antennas on-board. The drone can then record conversations to the storage card, and avoids dropping the call due to the 4G T-mobile card routing communications through VoIP. |
| Posted by:Sherry |
| #3 Obviously attention whores, or they would have painted the bird in a less visible color; copy the current palatte the military uses for minimizing visual detection. |
| Posted by: USN,Ret. 2011-08-03 20:55 |
| #2 Gaaawd, in my youth a "six-footer" or better was a SATURN-5 or ATLAS, ETC. FLYING MODEL ROCKET. Nowadays, since IMO so-called "OWG-NWO" = synonymous wid FUTURE "SPACE GOVT-ORDER", I suppose US Modeling-Rocket Clubs will be into "FLYING SAUCER" + WEIRD LOOKING, NOT-A-B17-OR-B24-OR-ZERO SPACE PLANE, SHUTTLE DESIGNS??? Or should be??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-08-03 19:55 |
| #1 Is this for recreational use? I seems kinda intrusive. Unless its in Pakistain, then it might be appropriate. |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2011-08-03 19:43 |