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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday August 11 2015, @12:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the engage-tinfoil-hat dept.

Weaponized drones are nothing new. However this drone is armed with digital weapons. From the phys.org article:

Hackers' arsenal was beefed up with a drone armed with weapons to crack into wireless computer networks at close range, whether they be in skyscrapers or walled compounds.

David Jordan of US-based Aerial Assault was at an infamous Def Con hacker gathering on Sunday, showing off a drone that could be dispatched on missions to land atop buildings or hover outside walls and probe for cracks in computer networks.

"There has never been this capability before," Jordan said as he showed the drone to AFP.

They conclude:

Hackers at Def Con early on turned to drones for sniffing out unprotected wireless Internet networks, but capabilities Jordan said were built into the Aerial Assault drone raised the ante with automated tools that could be flown past physical defenses.

So if you thought only camera drones could spy on you, you were clearly mistaken.

Side remark: When looking for further information, I noticed that every single article about this drone I've found uses the exactly same text. So much for journalism these days.


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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2015, @01:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2015, @01:01PM (#221239)

    and twist and shout with my pee pee out!

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