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Posted: 8/8/2014 11:54:21 AM EDT
BRILLIANT!!!
Late last month, a Siamese cat named Coco went wandering in his suburban Washington, DC neighborhood. He spent three hours exploring nearby backyards. He killed a mouse, whose carcass he thoughtfully brought home to his octogenarian owner, Nancy. And while he was out, Coco mapped dozens of his neighbors’ Wi-Fi networks, identifying four routers that used an old, easily-broken form of encryption and another four that were left entirely unprotected. Unbeknownst to Coco, he’d been fitted with a collar created by Nancy’s granddaughter’s husband, security researcher Gene Bransfield. And Bransfield had built into that collar a Spark Core chip loaded with his custom-coded firmware, a Wi-Fi card, a tiny GPS module and a battery—everything necessary to map all the networks in the neighborhood that would be vulnerable to any intruder or Wi-Fi mooch with, at most, some simple crypto-cracking tools. In the 1980s, hackers used a technique called "wardialing,” cycling through numbers with their modems to find unprotected computers far across the internet. The advent of Wi-Fi brought "wardriving,” putting an antenna in a car and cruising a city to suss out weak and unprotected Wi-Fi networks. This weekend at the DefCon hacker conference in Las Vegas, Bransfield will debut the next logical step: The "WarKitteh” collar, a device he built for less than $100 that turns any outdoor cat into a Wifi-sniffing hacker accomplice.  |
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Posted: 8/8/2014 11:56:05 AM EDT
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Damn, reminds me of that cat the CIA tried fitting with a listening device.
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Posted: 8/8/2014 11:56:40 AM EDT
[#2]
Another reason to shoot cats...
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Posted: 8/8/2014 11:56:53 AM EDT
[#3]
Haha, fucking awesome
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Posted: 8/8/2014 11:57:05 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/8/2014 11:59:25 AM EDT
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Imagine if this could scale up to dogs ...
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:07:45 PM EDT
[#6]
Neato!
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:12:20 PM EDT
[#7]
Because just driving around the block with your laptop is too much work?
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:12:34 PM EDT
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new project when i get better!
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:14:57 PM EDT
[#9]
Reminds me of this.
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:15:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Because just driving around the block with your laptop is too much work? No shit. |
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:15:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Because just driving around the block with your laptop is too much work? |
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:15:34 PM EDT
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An apple head Siamese, the feline equivalent of an SP1.
Mine, the late, great ChaiMing died about a decade ago. Beautiful cats they are, and not addle brained like the more "modern" variants. The retro look is in. |
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:16:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Because just driving around the block with your laptop is too much work? You fail to grasp the concept of building cool stuff just because it's cool. |
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:18:22 PM EDT
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Reminds me of this. http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ggmain/strips/ggmain20040315.jpg http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=67270 heh good to see he is still drawing.. used to read his work back in the Dragon mag days. |
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:19:24 PM EDT
[#15]
Nice
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:19:41 PM EDT
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You fail to grasp the concept of building cool stuff just because it's cool. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Because just driving around the block with your laptop is too much work? You fail to grasp the concept of building cool stuff just because it's cool. Yeah. Plus, getting something else to do the work for you.....is more efficient (something these guys probably value highly). |
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:20:24 PM EDT
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Cars are too random. Throw the thing on a drone.
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:22:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: heh good to see he is still drawing.. used to read his work back in the Dragon mag days. Quote HistoryQuoted: heh good to see he is still drawing.. used to read his work back in the Dragon mag days. Girl Genius is great. I used to read 'Phil & Dixie' back in the day, too.
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:23:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Another reason to shoot cats... |
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:23:55 PM EDT
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Girl Genius is great. I used to read 'Phil & Dixie' back in the day, too. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Reminds me of this. http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/ggmain/strips/ggmain20040315.jpg http://www.ar15.com/media/viewFile.html?i=67270 heh good to see he is still drawing.. used to read his work back in the Dragon mag days. Girl Genius is great. I used to read 'Phil & Dixie' back in the day, too. might have to check it out. if its as good as his old stuff. |
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:24:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Cars are too random. Throw the thing on a drone. |
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:24:45 PM EDT
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An apple head Siamese, the feline equivalent of an SP1. Mine, the late, great ChaiMing died about a decade ago. Beautiful cats they are, and not addle brained like the more "modern" variants. The retro look is in. I have an apple head, too. Very intelligent cat. |
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:24:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: might have to check it out. if its as good as his old stuff. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Girl Genius is great. I used to read 'Phil & Dixie' back in the day, too. might have to check it out. if its as good as his old stuff. It absolutely is. Better, even. See you in a few days
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:30:15 PM EDT
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Cars are too random. Throw the thing on a drone. 
Done! |
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:32:31 PM EDT
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Cats are autonomous, and you can send them out continually for updates, and to look for patterns. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Cars are too random. Throw the thing on a drone. Cats are autonomous, and you can send them out continually for updates, and to look for patterns. and longer battery life on the cat over the drone. |
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:36:17 PM EDT
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Does the cat drive a Miata?
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:39:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryThat is the best picture in the world for this thread, I pee'd a little when I saw it. |
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:39:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Does the cat drive a Miata? He wants to, but he can't get the lugnuts off
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:40:33 PM EDT
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And he calls it his "War Kitteh". I wonder what his screen name here is?
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:40:56 PM EDT
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Imagine if this could scale up to dogs ... I think cats can probably get into more places that dogs can't. 
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:41:57 PM EDT
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I think cats can probably get into more places that dogs can't. http://i58.tinypic.com/xn81sw.gif Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Imagine if this could scale up to dogs ... I think cats can probably get into more places that dogs can't. http://i58.tinypic.com/xn81sw.gif but can they get out of more places 
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:48:50 PM EDT
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Looks like I found a use for the random cat who started hanging around our house a year ago.
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:49:30 PM EDT
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Another reason to shoot cats... No. Stay away from my house 
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:51:45 PM EDT
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I wonder if it's waterproof.
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:52:31 PM EDT
[#35]
Acoustic Kitty Gen II
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:56:28 PM EDT
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Lot less suspicious with the cat. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Because just driving around the block with your laptop is too much work? Why not use an antenna from your house? A yagi will get you some good range to ID networks. Mine will go out to about 1 mile. |
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:56:43 PM EDT
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Now put that device on a quad copter
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:56:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You fail to grasp the concept of building cool stuff just because it's cool. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Because just driving around the block with your laptop is too much work? You fail to grasp the concept of building cool stuff just because it's cool. It isn't that cool. Now, if the device recorded packets so that the encryption could be attacked at the owner's house at his leisure, then it would be cool. It probably does do this, but he didn't have the balls to publish it. |
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:57:43 PM EDT
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I wonder if it's waterproof. If it's not a bit of shrink tubing can fix that. 
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:58:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryAwesome
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Posted: 8/8/2014 12:59:17 PM EDT
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Now put that device on a quad copter Quatcopters get noticed. Cat's don't. The really cool thing would be if the module uploads it's data to the internet when it finds an unsecured hot spot. You could get updates w/o the cat needing to return home. |
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Posted: 8/8/2014 1:01:14 PM EDT
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warkitteh
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Posted: 8/8/2014 1:02:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: might have to check it out. if its as good as his old stuff. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: heh good to see he is still drawing.. used to read his work back in the Dragon mag days. Girl Genius is great. I used to read 'Phil & Dixie' back in the day, too. might have to check it out. if its as good as his old stuff. The first few years GG was damn good, but it started dragging after a while.
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Posted: 8/8/2014 1:02:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I think cats can probably get into more places that dogs can't. http://i58.tinypic.com/xn81sw.gif Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Imagine if this could scale up to dogs ... I think cats can probably get into more places that dogs can't. http://i58.tinypic.com/xn81sw.gif Nice gif. Cats are magnificent machines, and we don't yet know how they work. |
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Posted: 8/8/2014 1:12:34 PM EDT
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Posted: 8/8/2014 1:24:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The first few years GG was damn good, but it started dragging after a while. Pacing is a lot better if you can read it all at once. That bit in the castle was dragging ass as a serial.
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