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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.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2015, @01:31PM
I can buy a wifi pineapple and duck tape it to a dji phantom too.
Look yall I'm a hackur!
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2015, @01:47PM
yea, my thoughts totally. This should be in toys'r'us shops. The target audience is 14y old haxxors :)
(Score: 2) by Dunbal on Tuesday August 11 2015, @02:35PM
There are only 1 or 2 "hackers", the rest are all script kiddies who have no idea what they are doing outside running a script.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by c0lo on Tuesday August 11 2015, @02:23PM
FTFY. You don't believe it? Should have read TFA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 12 2015, @12:47AM
I was doing this with estes rocket engines. Just cushion it for a good fall.. your stuff won't break like an egg if you do it right.
and if you use a raspberry pi of an older variety you can use a number of free distros to run the scans you want. Getting so high up sort of clears out a lot of physical interference, and model rockets draw the attention of young kids that have no concept as opposed to drones getting people to shoot your hardware down due to their (rightful, I may add) concerns.
Or just get in the car and go war driving.
But the rockets are infinitely cooler to use. It's only in the past few years that something other than an RC airplane could hold enough gear, still fly, and come back... the little helicopters were toys for the longest time, then camera toting spy toys. Now they are likely to be a major problem for those that wish to remain private.
Not too many tablets let you use a wired connection nowadays (mine does, but then I run tshark on it via ethernet while connected to something else via wifi, but its not like a usb ethernet adapter won't work...) in the event you wanted to still use modern conveniences. Of course, if you were hardcore, you could use sdr packet radio and get a slow wireless connection, and avoid this... or just use an unpermitted channel and many of the wardrivers/fliers won't even see you, since many they do not look by default for such signals.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Tuesday August 11 2015, @02:37PM
same reaction.