DARPA Funding a $50 Drone-Droppable Spy Computer 86
Sparrowvsrevolution writes "At the Shmoocon security conference, researcher Brendan O'Connor plans to present the F-BOMB, or Falling or Ballistically-launched Object that Makes Backdoors. Built from just the disassembled hardware in a commercially-available PogoPlug mini-computer, a few tiny antennae, eight gigabytes of flash memory and some 3D-printed plastic casing, the F-BOMB serves as 3.5"-by-4"-by-1" spy computer. With a contract from DARPA, O'Connor has designed the cheap gadgets to be spy nodes, ready to be dropped from a drone, plugged inconspicuously into a wall socket, (one model impersonates a carbon monoxide detector) thrown over a barrier, or otherwise put into irretrievable positions to quietly collect data and send it back to the owner over any available Wi-Fi network. O'Connor built his prototypes with gear that added up to just $46 each, so sacrificing one for a single use is affordable."
this is awesome (Score:5, Funny)
Funding (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Cockroaches (Score:5, Funny)
Really.... (Score:2, Funny)
They're calling it the F-BOMB? Fuck that.
All have become enemies foreign and domestic (Score:2, Funny)
If I were ever impaneled on a jury and this sort of thing were submitted as evidence by the prosecution and the defendant were "majority", nullification.
I am WHITE
I eat PORK
I own PROPERTY
How DARE you treat those like me and those as one would the enemy for the sake of buying crude petroleum and selling Treasuries!
Re:Report over WiFi??? (Score:4, Funny)
What exactly are you imagining a "warzone" is in this day and age?
Cleveland?