A Wi-Fi Wardriving Motorbike — With Plans Available 36
mask.of.sanity writes "This custom Yamaha TRX 850 has been outfitted with wireless sniffing and attack tools, routers, a laptop, Raspberry Pi and even a heads up display integrated within the bike helmet. It was built from open source kit and cheap hardware by a security penetration tester who wanted to make his love of wardriving more nimble. The plans are detailed in a diagram and a video."
All the better to defend in the zombie apocalypse (Score:3, Funny)
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Yech. You know those twinkies will get all dried out on the outside, and the inside will get mushy...
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Yech. You know those twinkies will get all dried out on the outside, and the inside will get mushy...
Yeah, same thing with the zombies...
Re:Is wardriving even a thing anymore (Score:5, Interesting)
Wireless (cellular) still costs money, and ties your p0rn downloads to you. Sneaking onto some unsuspecting dope's unprotected wifi is much easier.
Still, the story seems a little odd. Penetration tools on a motorbike make no sense. Even at a walking pace, you are out of range before you can penetrate any other station on the network. On an idling bike, you would certainly arose suspicion.
The best you can determine is if it is open or not on a drive by.
But you can do that with any cell phone and Any of several Wardriving tools [google.com].
Nostalgia (Score:5, Funny)
Ah, wardriving. It's like 2001 all over again. I remember that long, hot summer. The smell of chalk on concrete, the taste of poorly secured WEP.
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Only one criticism (Score:3)
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The cell phone in they guy's pocket probably does a better job as a war driving tool.
Park a motor bike outside my house and get on a keyboard and see how long it takes for me and/or the cops to be looking over your sholder.
Just have him come (Score:1)
My WiFi is protected by Chuck Norris.
LOL ... (Score:2)
Sounds like someone has been watching the Matrix or something a little too much.
Herds of nerds driving geared up motorcycles so they can go around war driving. Very cyberpunk, kinda. Now he just needs a couple of swords.
And, it sounds like he's trying to do a little more 'black hat' kind of stuff, but at least he can make a fast getaway.
Of course, I can picture the pick up lines ... "Hey baby, like my custom motorcycle" .... "oooh, you're such a stud" ... "yeah, and it's equipped with custom wi-fi penetra
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But does it have smartwheels? (Score:2)
EOM
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Google is a company and publishing information.. He isn't ( i assume )
Conceptually wrong. (Score:2)
Motorbikes are quick and agile, and just the thing for nipping through town with your messenger bag and Motorola GP300. If you're wardriving, that's going to suck, because you're going to go out of range of a lot of APs before you even scan round for them.
What you want to fit as a covert wardriving rig is a mini road sweeper.
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What you want to fit as a covert wardriving rig is a mini road sweeper.
"Plumbing" van. No one looks twice if you're parked for hours - tons of space for gear in a concealed space in the back.
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That's not much good for wardriving. you want something that can quite reasonably drive up and down the streets, covering every single one, really slowly.
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Outfit as one of the 'power line inspection' vans. You can drive nice and slow everywhere and potentially stop for hours at a time. Just get out and look up every hour or two, pad in hand, making notes.
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Don't forget to put out your orange cones.
Streethawk (Score:1)
Wardriving? (Score:3)
"I wanted to combine two things that I really love: Building and riding motorcycles and trashing wireless networks," Andzakovic told delegates at Kiwicon 6.
Guy sounds like a douche if you ask me.
Why? (Score:2)
A) Cell phones with 4G (LTE) coverage available in nearly every major area, if not 4G than 3G is pretty common in any reasonably populated area.
B) Everyone and their uncle has free wi-fi at their coffee shop/restaurant/hotel, etc.
Seriously, if you need to get your w@r3z t0rr3ntz why not just load up uTorrent on your Android Phone/tablet/toaster and go down to the local coffee shop and download it?
Yeah, back in 2001 it was interesting and fun becau
Other way round is more interesting (Score:2)
Years ago, there was a story [comminit.com] where they used motorbikes with wifi to connect villages to each other and the nearest city. This was in Cambodia before cheap mobile phones, they had a Fidonet-ish setup where outgoing email would be uploaded to the motorbike and stored there for delivery to the next village or to an Internet-connected computer in the city. The company that set this up [firstmilesolutions.com].