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Hack Rifle

96 points by blueintegral 12y ago

sunilkumarc 12y ago
Do you need any permission from government for hacking around with a rifle ?
- pnathan 12y ago
  Not in the US, up to a certain point. Certain kinds of weapons and weapon shapes are regulated. As a rule of thumb, historically US law has reflected the following, "If it's not explicitly banned, it's OK. And if you do it while banned and it is kind of awesome, the law will change". This has changed considerably in many areas, but still generally holds true as an ideal. edit: let's not downvote someone for asking a reasonable question. lots of places exist with lots of regulations.
- rdl 12y ago
  This isn't a rifle, it is airsoft. I actually think the rifle form factor is a horrible idea in use, due to people flipping out when a rifle is pointed at their building. But for shock value, it wins. The ideal is probably to use a panel antenna on the back of a laptop, or some non threatening way to conceal a higher gain antenna. It would be cute if someone put all this in an SLR camera form factor, I think...a 70-200 f2.8 is big enough for a high gain yagi.
  - blueintegral 12y ago
    Yes, this is definitely not a real rifle and would definitely freak people out if you walked around with it, which I'm not going to do.
  - ch4s3 12y ago
    Why not a telescope?
    - andrey-p 12y ago
      I'd prefer a magic wand.
      - ch4s3 12y ago
        I like it!
  - hga 12y ago
    "I actually think the rifle form factor is a horrible idea in use, due to police flipping out when" they see them and shooting innocent children. Fixed it for you: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/23/andy-lopez_n_4152819.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/23/andy-lopez_n_415281..., see also e.g. http://www.storyleak.com/airsoft/ http://www.storyleak.com/airsoft/ This is a beyond horrible idea, it could easily get you killed. Use it in an apparently offensive manner, i.e. point it at someone, and the shooting would even be justified, unlike at least one of the two above incidents.
    - pnathan 12y ago
      +1, it's not a good idea to use a rifle form factor. A good hack, but a bad idea considering others' reactions. I'm pretty comfortable with guns (raised in more rural Idaho), and I'm not particularly keen on the idea of seeing someone point a "rifle" out their window.
  - DanBC 12y ago
    Sadly photographers often get hassled if they take photographs in public. At least, the do in the UK. It got so bad the Met police had tonissue guidelines to their officers about why it's okay for people to take photographs in public. http://content.met.police.uk/Site/photographyadvice http://content.met.police.uk/Site/photographyadvice that advice is written from the lerspective of the Police. It doesn't mention the extra protection given to journalistic material for example. So, while it's not going to get you shot using a Hack-DSLR might get you arrested.
    - balls187 12y ago
      I've been "harassed" a few times over seas. Usually it involves accidently photographing near police stations or military installations, which is a pretty obvious no-no, except that the buildings were pretty non-descript and I had no idea what they were at the time. It's only happened a few times: someone comes out and either tells me to stop, or yells at me in a language I don't speak very well, and I say "sorry" in whatever language and continue walking around. I find that the trouble happens when photographers/travelers try to argue with the people harassing them. Usually most the people I encounter just make a joke, smile, and encourage me to take photos. Funny how far a smile gets you when you're traveling.
- Kerrick 12y ago
  As long as you are not using a lower receiver [1], it's not actually a rifle, just pieces of metal and plastic. The lower receiver is the actual firearm according to U.S. law. For example, these [2] are the non-rifle parts of an AR-15. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_receiver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_receiver [2]: https://i.imgur.com/TozIZ7l.jpg https://i.imgur.com/TozIZ7l.jpg
  - rdl 12y ago
    ITAR applies to certain accessories as well (optics, some suppressors, and I believe certain muzzle brakes). That's only an issue for export, though. (and the "lower receiver" vs. "receiver" part is only for the AR-15 or rifles of similar design; lots of rifles have a single receiver, and for handguns it generally means the frame -- it's in reality a circular definition, with the receiver being the serialized part which is serialized because it's the receiver...) It's really interesting with firearms like the Sig P250, where the interchangeable piece is on the "fire control group" and the rest of the firearm is totally interchangeable -- this is specifically because German regulations restrict people to owning two handguns, and this lets you have one firearm in multiple calibers, sizes, etc. (Amazon's policy is even weirder..."anything in the firing path" is prohibited, but a lot of other accessories are commonly sold, and the policy isn't really uniformly enforced at that.) Plus, in some countries they restrict airsoft and pellet guns (like this one) based on muzzle energy (or sometimes velocity). 3-6 J is a common limit.
- wyager 12y ago
  In the US, you can modify a gun pretty much however you want (short of making it fully automatic, having a barrel that's "too short" per regulation, or building any form of suppressor). But of course this is an airsoft gun, which you can modify to your heart's content.
cinquemb 12y ago
I'm curious about the total weight before and after modification? I can only imagine that in the near future someone is going to want to 3d print this and mount it on some type of consumer UAV and open source the software/hardware setup. I'm also pretty curious what, if any, measurements can be taken with this setup?
- blueintegral 12y ago
  I didn't weigh it, but before it was probably 2 or 3 pounds and adding everything to it was like an extra two pounds. As it is, you can do anything you could with a regular laptop and wifi card, but if you added an SDR, you could measure I and Q and do whatever you want.
erikig 12y ago
Hmm, I wonder how long before someone fits one of these (airsoft or not) onto a drone and starts causing havoc?
- lmg643 12y ago
  interesting - seems like the reverse use-case would also sense. soldier with one of these uses it to block guidance and communication systems going into a drone. range would be an issue i suppose.
  - cinquemb 12y ago
    I think overall it probably depends on how one defines havoc, who is behind such and where it takes place (some village in pashtunistan or some university campus). After all, the same action being described in a another context could be called "peacekeeping" and be accepted as such by vast swaths of a population.
- detcader 12y ago
  Snowden documents (the ones Applebaum presented, possibly, if not others) confirm that US drones already do this in the countries our oligarchs don't like. "In addition to the GILGAMESH system used by JSOC, the CIA uses a similar NSA platform known as SHENANIGANS. The operation – previously undisclosed – utilizes a pod on aircraft that vacuums up massive amounts of data from any wireless routers, computers, smart phones or other electronic devices that are within range." - http://privacysos.org/node/1323 http://privacysos.org/node/1323
- rdl 12y ago
  I've seen this as a payload for military UAVs (Hunter); it's a 700kg aircraft, though. I don't think you could put the right electronics on a small quadcopter, but the gas powered quadcopters are perfectly capable -- anything which can carry a DSLR. The nice thing about antennas is they're super directional (if desired), so really all you need is altitude, not necessarily maneuverability -- a tethered balloon or just being on top of a building would work fine. For SIGINT, you probably want longer loiter times than a small UAV will give you; a small UAV with wifi/cell would mainly be for tracking a moving target, or killing a target which happens to be radiating on a specific frequency (i.e. find/kill a certain cellphone). In general the military cares more about cellular signals than wifi, at least so far.
curlyquote 12y ago
I don't find this interesting or cool; it's pretty disgusting and immoral for someone to spend their time 'hacking' weapons and then publishing an article detailing their work.
- Carrok 12y ago
  I sure hope you're joking... you are joking right?
- wyager 12y ago
  > it's pretty disgusting and immoral for someone to spend their time 'hacking' weapons and then publishing an article detailing their work. Unstated major premises: 1. Weapons are inherently bad. 2. Modifying something bad is bad. 3. Publishing how to do bad things is bad. Call me crazy, but I don't agree with any of those.
  - CHY872 12y ago
    Well, it's probably at least lame. All this kinda crap is just some guy who had a free weekend and happens to have a decent podium to speak about it on. Clearly the device itself is useless because it's the opposite of what you want - something inconspicuous.
mschuster91 12y ago
What is the use of any wifi cracking equipment these days? Here in Munich (and also other German cities I've visited), no one carries a WEP WiFi anymore, and even the WPA1-only WiFis have nearly vanished...
- helllllllo 12y ago
  You'd be surprised how many routers have shipped with WPS on by default, and without rate limiting. Your 25 character, randomly generated password isn't much help when you can simply try about 11000 WPS PINs and have it spit out the plaintext key to you :)
  - hxc 12y ago
    Even if it is turned off the router can still be vulnerable. Reaver use to be the go to script for this but now bully has taken over.[1] [1]https://github.com/bdpurcell/bully https://github.com/bdpurcell/bully
    - vezzy-fnord 12y ago
      Not to mention OpenCL-accelerated WPA handshake cracking can still pay off reasonably.
      - icelancer 12y ago
        Definitely agree. I've audited my fair share of WPA captured handshakes and had a lot of success. People choose shitty passwords.
rdl 12y ago
Semi-related: has anyone read this paper which claims to have a WPA2 rekeying vulnerability and evaluated it? They published in a journal I don't have access to, and don't have a preprint online, so it's probably not very important, but I'm still curious. Achilleas Tsitroulis, Dimitris Lampoudis, Emmanuel Tsekleves. Exposing WPA2 security protocol vulnerabilities. International Journal of Information and Computer Security, 2014; 6 (1): 93 DOI: 10.1504/IJICS.2014.059797 (Fucking journals are extortion; the system must be destroyed.)
- garrettgrimsley 12y ago
  I remember that paper. The researchers ran a de-auth attack and then attempted to brute force the key. It isn't worth reading.
- dfc 12y ago
  All of the tor exit nodes on campuses with good journal subscriptions have disappeared or they have been marked as open proxies by the journal cabal. I used to be able to get any journal pub via an exit node at BostonU or GaTech. dx.doi.org needs to disappear too. Two of the three ipv6 endpoints are always down and unbound never seems to shuffle the addresses in such a way I get the working address first: dfc@ronin:~$ wget http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJICS.2014.059797 --2014-04-21 00:32:13-- http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJICS.2014.059797 Resolving dx.doi.org (dx.doi.org)... 2001:550:100:6::203, 2001:550:100:6::202, 2a00:1a48:7805:112:2c13:65be:ff08:2e89, ... Connecting to dx.doi.org (dx.doi.org)|2001:550:100:6::203|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Connecting to dx.doi.org (dx.doi.org)|2001:550:100:6::202|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Connecting to dx.doi.org (dx.doi.org)|2a00:1a48:7805:112:2c13:65be:ff08:2e89|:80... connected.
andrewguenther 12y ago
We could spend all day talking about the morality, possible government uses, and legality of all this, but I would personally just like to take a moment to appreciate how fucking cool this thing is.
- rkuykendall-com 12y ago
  It looks like something out of Buckaroo Banzai or Hackers.
  - platz 12y ago
    The military-industrial-complex aesthetic doesn't really fit either of those two movies, but I agree there is a hacker's charm going on there.
    - rkuykendall-com 12y ago
      I think I was mostly thinking of the exposed colored wires and screws. It not a clean-faced product. Plus, the science / action combination of hacking and guns made me think of those movies. http://johnkennethmuir.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/banzai4.jpg http://johnkennethmuir.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/banzai4.j... http://www.hscott.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/IMG_6491.jpg http://www.hscott.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/IMG_6491.jp...
  - arethuza 12y ago
    My first reaction was that is looks like something the Laundry would issue (from Charlie Stross's excellent series about a Turing-complete Lovecraftian British intelligence agency): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stross#The_Laundry_Files http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stross#The_Laundry_File...
100k 12y ago
Remind anyone else of the smart rifle in Ken MacLeod's The Star Fraction? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Fraction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Fraction
- vertis 12y ago
  Yeah, it reminded me of that too.
jotux 12y ago
Reminds me of the "BlueSniper" rifle from a few years ago: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/how-to-bluesniper-pt1,review-408.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/how-to-bluesniper-pt1,review-408...
- blueintegral 12y ago
  That might actually be the same original project I was referring to.
praptak 12y ago
When you actually use it, WiFi cracking will be the last thing you're suspected of. Clever!
madengr 12y ago
Needs to pull out all that extra cable wrapped around the barrel. It's not helping the noise figure any.
michaelmcmillan 12y ago
For the love of everything that is holy, please do not get MITM'ed.
forrestthewoods 12y ago
Maybe I'm dumb. What does this thing do exactly? It doesn't seem like the post actually says.
- tel 12y ago
  Looks like > The way it’s set up right now, after pressing the button on the battery and booting up, pulling the trigger will scan for networks, find the best candidate, and start cracking.
- blueintegral 12y ago
  It's basically a portable extremely long range WiFi adapter with an embedded computer on it that can be used for nefarious purposes. The form factor is based on an earlier project, which used a rifle stock as an easier way to aim a big Yagi antenna.
- octatone2 12y ago
  Wifi cracking.
gamed 12y ago
Another pretty awesome device modified for WiFi hacking is Denis' motorcycle. Article: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/323897,pen-tester-builds-wifi-war-bike.aspx http://www.itnews.com.au/News/323897,pen-tester-builds-wifi-... Kiwicon presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr7YAhf4IG0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr7YAhf4IG0
Yetanfou 12y ago
You could replace the scope with a viewfinder from an older video camera. These are essentially smallish monitors with eyepieces, giving you all the freedom you want wrt. spectrum displays overlaid over video imagery of the targeted area. Driving the thing might be an exercise in itself but it should be doable from the HDMI port on the Pi using a VGA converter or through a USB display adapter. Personally I'd tone down the gun aspect of the whole thing though... lying on a roof somewhere in the US of A, pointing this thing at a window in an office building nearby is an open invitation for unwanted attention from trigger-happy defenders of the realm.

Hack Rifle

96 points by blueintegral 12y ago

sunilkumarc 12y ago

Do you need any permission from government for hacking around with a rifle ?

pnathan 12y ago
Not in the US, up to a certain point. Certain kinds of weapons and weapon shapes are regulated. As a rule of thumb, historically US law has reflected the following, "If it's not explicitly banned, it's OK. And if you do it while banned and it is kind of awesome, the law will change". This has changed considerably in many areas, but still generally holds true as an ideal. edit: let's not downvote someone for asking a reasonable question. lots of places exist with lots of regulations.
rdl 12y ago
This isn't a rifle, it is airsoft. I actually think the rifle form factor is a horrible idea in use, due to people flipping out when a rifle is pointed at their building. But for shock value, it wins. The ideal is probably to use a panel antenna on the back of a laptop, or some non threatening way to conceal a higher gain antenna. It would be cute if someone put all this in an SLR camera form factor, I think...a 70-200 f2.8 is big enough for a high gain yagi.
- blueintegral 12y ago
  Yes, this is definitely not a real rifle and would definitely freak people out if you walked around with it, which I'm not going to do.
- ch4s3 12y ago
  Why not a telescope?
  - andrey-p 12y ago
    I'd prefer a magic wand.
    - ch4s3 12y ago
      I like it!
- hga 12y ago
  "I actually think the rifle form factor is a horrible idea in use, due to police flipping out when" they see them and shooting innocent children. Fixed it for you: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/23/andy-lopez_n_4152819.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/23/andy-lopez_n_415281..., see also e.g. http://www.storyleak.com/airsoft/ http://www.storyleak.com/airsoft/ This is a beyond horrible idea, it could easily get you killed. Use it in an apparently offensive manner, i.e. point it at someone, and the shooting would even be justified, unlike at least one of the two above incidents.
  - pnathan 12y ago
    +1, it's not a good idea to use a rifle form factor. A good hack, but a bad idea considering others' reactions. I'm pretty comfortable with guns (raised in more rural Idaho), and I'm not particularly keen on the idea of seeing someone point a "rifle" out their window.
- DanBC 12y ago
  Sadly photographers often get hassled if they take photographs in public. At least, the do in the UK. It got so bad the Met police had tonissue guidelines to their officers about why it's okay for people to take photographs in public. http://content.met.police.uk/Site/photographyadvice http://content.met.police.uk/Site/photographyadvice that advice is written from the lerspective of the Police. It doesn't mention the extra protection given to journalistic material for example. So, while it's not going to get you shot using a Hack-DSLR might get you arrested.
  - balls187 12y ago
    I've been "harassed" a few times over seas. Usually it involves accidently photographing near police stations or military installations, which is a pretty obvious no-no, except that the buildings were pretty non-descript and I had no idea what they were at the time. It's only happened a few times: someone comes out and either tells me to stop, or yells at me in a language I don't speak very well, and I say "sorry" in whatever language and continue walking around. I find that the trouble happens when photographers/travelers try to argue with the people harassing them. Usually most the people I encounter just make a joke, smile, and encourage me to take photos. Funny how far a smile gets you when you're traveling.
Kerrick 12y ago
As long as you are not using a lower receiver [1], it's not actually a rifle, just pieces of metal and plastic. The lower receiver is the actual firearm according to U.S. law. For example, these [2] are the non-rifle parts of an AR-15. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_receiver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_receiver [2]: https://i.imgur.com/TozIZ7l.jpg https://i.imgur.com/TozIZ7l.jpg
- rdl 12y ago
  ITAR applies to certain accessories as well (optics, some suppressors, and I believe certain muzzle brakes). That's only an issue for export, though. (and the "lower receiver" vs. "receiver" part is only for the AR-15 or rifles of similar design; lots of rifles have a single receiver, and for handguns it generally means the frame -- it's in reality a circular definition, with the receiver being the serialized part which is serialized because it's the receiver...) It's really interesting with firearms like the Sig P250, where the interchangeable piece is on the "fire control group" and the rest of the firearm is totally interchangeable -- this is specifically because German regulations restrict people to owning two handguns, and this lets you have one firearm in multiple calibers, sizes, etc. (Amazon's policy is even weirder..."anything in the firing path" is prohibited, but a lot of other accessories are commonly sold, and the policy isn't really uniformly enforced at that.) Plus, in some countries they restrict airsoft and pellet guns (like this one) based on muzzle energy (or sometimes velocity). 3-6 J is a common limit.
wyager 12y ago
In the US, you can modify a gun pretty much however you want (short of making it fully automatic, having a barrel that's "too short" per regulation, or building any form of suppressor). But of course this is an airsoft gun, which you can modify to your heart's content.

cinquemb 12y ago

I'm curious about the total weight before and after modification? I can only imagine that in the near future someone is going to want to 3d print this and mount it on some type of consumer UAV and open source the software/hardware setup. I'm also pretty curious what, if any, measurements can be taken with this setup?

blueintegral 12y ago
I didn't weigh it, but before it was probably 2 or 3 pounds and adding everything to it was like an extra two pounds. As it is, you can do anything you could with a regular laptop and wifi card, but if you added an SDR, you could measure I and Q and do whatever you want.

erikig 12y ago

Hmm, I wonder how long before someone fits one of these (airsoft or not) onto a drone and starts causing havoc?

lmg643 12y ago
interesting - seems like the reverse use-case would also sense. soldier with one of these uses it to block guidance and communication systems going into a drone. range would be an issue i suppose.
- cinquemb 12y ago
  I think overall it probably depends on how one defines havoc, who is behind such and where it takes place (some village in pashtunistan or some university campus). After all, the same action being described in a another context could be called "peacekeeping" and be accepted as such by vast swaths of a population.
detcader 12y ago
Snowden documents (the ones Applebaum presented, possibly, if not others) confirm that US drones already do this in the countries our oligarchs don't like. "In addition to the GILGAMESH system used by JSOC, the CIA uses a similar NSA platform known as SHENANIGANS. The operation – previously undisclosed – utilizes a pod on aircraft that vacuums up massive amounts of data from any wireless routers, computers, smart phones or other electronic devices that are within range." - http://privacysos.org/node/1323 http://privacysos.org/node/1323
rdl 12y ago
I've seen this as a payload for military UAVs (Hunter); it's a 700kg aircraft, though. I don't think you could put the right electronics on a small quadcopter, but the gas powered quadcopters are perfectly capable -- anything which can carry a DSLR. The nice thing about antennas is they're super directional (if desired), so really all you need is altitude, not necessarily maneuverability -- a tethered balloon or just being on top of a building would work fine. For SIGINT, you probably want longer loiter times than a small UAV will give you; a small UAV with wifi/cell would mainly be for tracking a moving target, or killing a target which happens to be radiating on a specific frequency (i.e. find/kill a certain cellphone). In general the military cares more about cellular signals than wifi, at least so far.

curlyquote 12y ago

I don't find this interesting or cool; it's pretty disgusting and immoral for someone to spend their time 'hacking' weapons and then publishing an article detailing their work.

Carrok 12y ago
I sure hope you're joking... you are joking right?
wyager 12y ago
> it's pretty disgusting and immoral for someone to spend their time 'hacking' weapons and then publishing an article detailing their work. Unstated major premises: 1. Weapons are inherently bad. 2. Modifying something bad is bad. 3. Publishing how to do bad things is bad. Call me crazy, but I don't agree with any of those.
- CHY872 12y ago
  Well, it's probably at least lame. All this kinda crap is just some guy who had a free weekend and happens to have a decent podium to speak about it on. Clearly the device itself is useless because it's the opposite of what you want - something inconspicuous.

mschuster91 12y ago

What is the use of any wifi cracking equipment these days? Here in Munich (and also other German cities I've visited), no one carries a WEP WiFi anymore, and even the WPA1-only WiFis have nearly vanished...

helllllllo 12y ago
You'd be surprised how many routers have shipped with WPS on by default, and without rate limiting. Your 25 character, randomly generated password isn't much help when you can simply try about 11000 WPS PINs and have it spit out the plaintext key to you :)
- hxc 12y ago
  Even if it is turned off the router can still be vulnerable. Reaver use to be the go to script for this but now bully has taken over.[1] [1]https://github.com/bdpurcell/bully https://github.com/bdpurcell/bully
  - vezzy-fnord 12y ago
    Not to mention OpenCL-accelerated WPA handshake cracking can still pay off reasonably.
    - icelancer 12y ago
      Definitely agree. I've audited my fair share of WPA captured handshakes and had a lot of success. People choose shitty passwords.

rdl 12y ago

Semi-related: has anyone read this paper which claims to have a WPA2 rekeying vulnerability and evaluated it? They published in a journal I don't have access to, and don't have a preprint online, so it's probably not very important, but I'm still curious. Achilleas Tsitroulis, Dimitris Lampoudis, Emmanuel Tsekleves. Exposing WPA2 security protocol vulnerabilities. International Journal of Information and Computer Security, 2014; 6 (1): 93 DOI: 10.1504/IJICS.2014.059797 (Fucking journals are extortion; the system must be destroyed.)

garrettgrimsley 12y ago
I remember that paper. The researchers ran a de-auth attack and then attempted to brute force the key. It isn't worth reading.
dfc 12y ago
All of the tor exit nodes on campuses with good journal subscriptions have disappeared or they have been marked as open proxies by the journal cabal. I used to be able to get any journal pub via an exit node at BostonU or GaTech. dx.doi.org needs to disappear too. Two of the three ipv6 endpoints are always down and unbound never seems to shuffle the addresses in such a way I get the working address first: dfc@ronin:~$ wget http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJICS.2014.059797 --2014-04-21 00:32:13-- http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJICS.2014.059797 Resolving dx.doi.org (dx.doi.org)... 2001:550:100:6::203, 2001:550:100:6::202, 2a00:1a48:7805:112:2c13:65be:ff08:2e89, ... Connecting to dx.doi.org (dx.doi.org)|2001:550:100:6::203|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Connecting to dx.doi.org (dx.doi.org)|2001:550:100:6::202|:80... failed: Connection timed out. Connecting to dx.doi.org (dx.doi.org)|2a00:1a48:7805:112:2c13:65be:ff08:2e89|:80... connected.

andrewguenther 12y ago

We could spend all day talking about the morality, possible government uses, and legality of all this, but I would personally just like to take a moment to appreciate how fucking cool this thing is.

rkuykendall-com 12y ago
It looks like something out of Buckaroo Banzai or Hackers.
- platz 12y ago
  The military-industrial-complex aesthetic doesn't really fit either of those two movies, but I agree there is a hacker's charm going on there.
  - rkuykendall-com 12y ago
    I think I was mostly thinking of the exposed colored wires and screws. It not a clean-faced product. Plus, the science / action combination of hacking and guns made me think of those movies. http://johnkennethmuir.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/banzai4.jpg http://johnkennethmuir.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/banzai4.j... http://www.hscott.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/IMG_6491.jpg http://www.hscott.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/IMG_6491.jp...
- arethuza 12y ago
  My first reaction was that is looks like something the Laundry would issue (from Charlie Stross's excellent series about a Turing-complete Lovecraftian British intelligence agency): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stross#The_Laundry_Files http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stross#The_Laundry_File...

100k 12y ago

Remind anyone else of the smart rifle in Ken MacLeod's The Star Fraction? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Fraction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Fraction

vertis 12y ago
Yeah, it reminded me of that too.

jotux 12y ago

Reminds me of the "BlueSniper" rifle from a few years ago: http://www.tomsguide.com/us/how-to-bluesniper-pt1,review-408.html http://www.tomsguide.com/us/how-to-bluesniper-pt1,review-408...

blueintegral 12y ago
That might actually be the same original project I was referring to.

praptak 12y ago

When you actually use it, WiFi cracking will be the last thing you're suspected of. Clever!

madengr 12y ago

Needs to pull out all that extra cable wrapped around the barrel. It's not helping the noise figure any.

michaelmcmillan 12y ago

For the love of everything that is holy, please do not get MITM'ed.

forrestthewoods 12y ago

Maybe I'm dumb. What does this thing do exactly? It doesn't seem like the post actually says.

tel 12y ago
Looks like > The way it’s set up right now, after pressing the button on the battery and booting up, pulling the trigger will scan for networks, find the best candidate, and start cracking.
blueintegral 12y ago
It's basically a portable extremely long range WiFi adapter with an embedded computer on it that can be used for nefarious purposes. The form factor is based on an earlier project, which used a rifle stock as an easier way to aim a big Yagi antenna.
octatone2 12y ago
Wifi cracking.

gamed 12y ago

Another pretty awesome device modified for WiFi hacking is Denis' motorcycle. Article: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/323897,pen-tester-builds-wifi-war-bike.aspx http://www.itnews.com.au/News/323897,pen-tester-builds-wifi-... Kiwicon presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr7YAhf4IG0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr7YAhf4IG0

Yetanfou 12y ago

You could replace the scope with a viewfinder from an older video camera. These are essentially smallish monitors with eyepieces, giving you all the freedom you want wrt. spectrum displays overlaid over video imagery of the targeted area. Driving the thing might be an exercise in itself but it should be doable from the HDMI port on the Pi using a VGA converter or through a USB display adapter. Personally I'd tone down the gun aspect of the whole thing though... lying on a roof somewhere in the US of A, pointing this thing at a window in an office building nearby is an open invitation for unwanted attention from trigger-happy defenders of the realm.