“Late last month, a Siamese cat named Coco went wandering in his suburban Washington, DC neighborhood. He spent three hours exploring nearby backyards. 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. In the 1980s, hackers used a technique called ‘wardialing,’ cycling through numbers with their modems to find unprotected computers far across the internet. The next logical step: The ‘WarKitteh’ collar, a device built for less than $100 that turns any outdoor cat into a Wifi-sniffing hacker accomplice.”
http://www.wired.com/2014/08/how-to-use-your-cat-to-hack-your-neighbors-wi-fi/
Related posts:
Stopped-and-Frisked: 'For Being a F**king Mutt'
Lew Rockwell: The First 30 Years of the Mises Institute, and the Future
Russian banks ramping up gold purchases at record pace
20 Ways FATCA Will Catch Americans
France Moves To Ban Free Drink Refills
Drone drops drugs into Ohio prison yard, inmate brawl ensues
This is a gift. Keep it closed.
50 Years of Marvel's The Avengers
The Skinny on Breadth
Teacher Fired, Reported To Counter-Terror Unit For Expressing Christian Views
Obama Throwing Medical Marijuana Patients Into Federal Prison At Unprecedented Rate
Government foreclosure audit held off on looking at largest banks
India bans gold jewellery from Thailand
Chicago Murders Top Afghanistan War Death Toll
Dick Bove: US Assault on JPMorgan Is 'Coordinated from Above'