Saturday, March 03, 2012
"DARPA-Funded Hacker's Tiny $50 Spy Computer Hides In Offices, Drops From Drones"
DARPA is the acronymn for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
A few more things like this and Science Fiction writers will be behind the times...
A few more things like this and Science Fiction writers will be behind the times...
PRE-LINK TEXT Andy Greenberg writes about these little gems:
"Despite its name, O’Connor says the F-BOMB is designed to be a platform for all sorts of applications on its Linux operating system. Outfit it with temperature or humidity sensors, for instance, and it can be used for meteorological research or other innocent data-collecting. But install some Wifi-cracking software or add a $15 GPS module, and it can snoop on data networks or track a target’s location, O’Connor adds. As is often the case with these kinds of hacker projects, he says the devices are only intended for penetration testing–finding security flaws in clients’ networks in order to fix them–and wouldn’t comment on what DARPA might do with the technology."
