Cheap, easy diy spying tool developed

Mr. O’Connor, 27, bought some plastic boxes and stuffed them with a $25, credit-card size Raspberry Pi Model A computer and a few over-the-counter sensors, including Wi-Fi adapters. He connected each of those boxes to a command and control system, and he built a data visualization system to monitor what the sensors picked up: all the wireless traffic emitted by every nearby wireless device, including smartphones.

...his sensors could track his location through Wi-Fi “pings.” His iPhone pinged the iMessage server to check for new messages. When he logged on to an unsecured Wi-Fi, it revealed what operating system he was using on what kind of device, and whether he was using Dropbox or went on a dating site or browsed for shoes on an e-commerce site. One site might leak his e-mail address, another his photo...

The boxes are small enough to be tucked under a cafe table or dropped from a hobby drone. They can be scattered around a city and go unnoticed.

Can individual consumers guard against such a prospect? Not really, he concluded.

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This just goes to show how little privacy we all have, especially concerning devices such as smartphones.
I wonder what the full implications of this could be.

smart phones are stupid

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It's a brave new world!

Originally posted by AkhenatenII
smart phones are stupid

Smartphones are awesome really. It's just the governmental and big corporate spying grid that is stupid.

Wait till the perverts find out that with a simple camera and wifi they can hide cameras anywhere and watch from anyplace in the world.
www.raspberrypi.org...