Dutch Hackers Create Wi-Fi Sniffing Drone

An anonymous reader writes "The WASP, or Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform, has been built out of a hobby-grade airframe and open source Ardupilot autopilot, reports sUASnews. In the words of the Rabbit-Hole website, it's a 'Small Scale, Open Source UAV using off the shelf components. Designed to provide a vehicle to project cyber-offensive and defensive capabilities, and visual / electronic surveillance over distance cheaply and with little risk.'" Want a drone of your own? The makers have some pointers to helpful resources.

I want a hunter-killer drone...

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

How about a hunter-killer drone that sniffs out other drones, homes in on their telemetrics and blows them up in a blazing fireball of glory!
That's the kind of shit I want to see.

Turns out there is one fatal flaw

[Anonymous Coward]

if the drone finds an open network it tends to crash because its too busy looking at roboporn to actually control itself.

lolcatz' caption

[FishTankX]

im in ur hotspot
sniffin' ur pornz

Re:Link is to Flash - boooo!

[zbyg]

Did you forget about the great features of Flash? If you choose Flash over HTML, you get:

• up to 90% shorter page loading times, because Flash is compiled and HTML is not
• increased security, because browsers are insecure, and plugins are secure by default
• unbelievable and very powerfull accesibility features
• a page which works and looks the same in any browser running on any computer

/sarcasm

Re:Did it actually fly? Broken wing.

[shadowrat]

They usually start out fine, but my act incorporates torches and chainsaws.