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How long can you sit outside a company running Kali Linux and a high gain antenna array before you attract attention? If you ship someone on the DevOps team a
by mikece 7y ago
How long can you sit outside a company running Kali Linux and a high gain antenna array before you attract attention? If you ship someone on the DevOps team a WiFi-connected plush toy that listens for webhooks from your CI/CD platform to make happy/sad noises when the build passes/fails -- AND THEY PLUG IT IN AND LEAVE IT ON -- then the ability to have passive access to the network for a long period of time will be less noticed.
The example of the WiFi connected stuffed animal listening for webhooks isn't a made-up example -- I read a blog post about that years ago. Some team had a "build bunny" whose ears perked up and made happy noises when the build passed and the ears drooped and made a sad trombone noise when builds failed. The thing is already RF-active... would anyone break out a spectrum analyzer to notice if the thing was also transmitting/receiving on LTE and not just WiFi?
- miah_ 7y agoThere was also, The Thing which was a gift from Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union to Ambassador Harriman in 1945. It was discovered to be a passive listening device seven years later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
- overcast 7y agoI suspect way longer than you think. Ten of thousands of small businesses don't pay attention to that stuff.
- heavenlyblue 7y agoBut this device won't work for more than a few days anyway.
- lb1lf 7y agoJust piggyback it onto something the recipient would want to plug in. Problem solved.
- moftz 7y agoA typical SUV or minivan with tinted windows that only parks there during business hours probably wouldn't attract much attention if the business was large enough that no one knew everyone that worked there. Integrate the yagi antenna into some part of the car like a bike rack or hide it inside a plastic roof carrier. Show up around the time that people are starting to come in so you can get a good spot for the antenna and leave when everyone else does.