Wireless Snooping WASP Drone
1st August 2011
This fearsome contraption is the handiwork of a couple of amateur DEFCON-types who reckoned that any self-respecting spy plane ought to be able to impersonate cellphone towers. And that’s exactly what the Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform does — it tricks AT&T and T-Mobile handsets into connecting to it, then re-routes the incoming calls via VOIP so they don’t drop, while simultaneously recording all conversations to 32GB of onboard storage. It can also handle a bit of WiFi snooping on the side, thanks to a Linux-based hacking toolkit and a 340 million word dictionary for guessing passwords. What’s more, the WASP apparently achieves all of this without breaking a single FCC regulation.
Women and minorities hardest hit.
August 2nd, 2011 at 13:40
Oh no! It’s WASP – we must hate it for not being a minority!
August 3rd, 2011 at 19:58
Um…according to the latest census, WASPs are now a minority.