Be honest , how often do you use unsecured Wi - Fi for something you should n’t ? You have intercourse , just a quick Facebook login at Starbucks . If you ’ve done it even once , that ’s too much , because makinga undercover undercover agent computing machine that can steal all that datais dull slowly . And tatty to boot .
Brendan O’Connor , certificate researcher , founder of the consulting firmMalice Afterthought , and mind behind theF - BOMB , has been showing off his New toy at DEF CON . It ’s called creepyDOL , and it ’s like a budget PRISM - box for DIY hackers .
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With a $ 25 Raspberry Pi and a smattering of adapters — including Wi - Fi — each creepyDOL box costs a mere $ 57 in parts , and is deserving its weight in steal datum . But the really scary clobber is what O’Connor can rig up the units to do as a internet once they ’ve capture enough data to identify your specific gadgets .
The New York Timesexplains some of the creepy-crawly possibility :
You could espy on your X - lover , by placing the sensor boxes near the position the person frequents , or your adolescent child , or the residents of a finical neighborhood . You could keep tab on people who gain at a certain house of adoration or take part in a dissent demonstration in a town public square . Their phones and tablets , Mr. O’Connor argue , would surely leak some info about them – and certainly if they then connect to an unbarred Wi - Fi . The box are modest enough to be tuck under a coffeehouse table or discharge from a Falco subbuteo pilotless aircraft . They can be scattered around a metropolis and go unnoticed .
Granted , O’Connor is n’t doing any of this stuff , but if he could , so could just about anyone else . This sort of surveillance preys on insecurity that ’s passably integral to digital world as it is today , so it ’s tough to obscure from . you could take more about O’Connors little toyover at The Times . And you think it was enough to just worry about the NSA . [ The New York Times ]
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