How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi

W I R E D ^ | 08.08.14 6:30 am | By Andy Greenberg

[Utilizer]

How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi

It appears that wired.com cannot be posted per their copyright complaint. Ignore the clickable link, it only points back to the FR index page...

The link has more info... and a few pics. :)

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/how-to-use-your-cat-to-hack-your-neighbors-wi-fi/

[Utilizer]

This is about a new device named the WarKitteh collar, a name which the Viking Kittys might approve of. Who knew that cats could be so useful -and sneaky?

[Gen.Blather]

If I tried to put that collar on my cat the thing getting hacked would not be Wi-Fi.

[Utilizer]

Ping. You might like this one... *grin*

[Utilizer]

Depends on the cat, really. Most of the ones I’ve known, while being curious and adventuresome, are generally relaxed about most things.

[Bobalu]

Someone wired up a simple wifi snooper and stuck the thing around the cat’s neck.

Cat strolls through neighborhood and logs all the local wifi networks looking for those with weak or no protection.

A cute cat hack...paging slings n arrows :-)

[Utilizer]

It also has a tiny GPS module so you can map the locations of hotspots found.

[RedMDer]

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[afraidfortherepublic]

http://www.wired.com/2014/08/how-to-use-your-cat-to-hack-your-neighbors-wi-fi/

Here’s the link

[Jack Hydrazine]

The guy forgot to include CatCam.
http://www.mr-lee-catcam.de/

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/video/cat-cam-exposes-the-secret-lives-of-cats/1642614173001

[Utilizer]

Thank you so much. :)

[Jack Hydrazine]

Someone could go router sniffing with the same equipment attached to a quadricopter drone and fly it all over the neighborhood.

[angry elephant]

Someone could just carry the equipment around the neighborhood themselves and find the Wi-Fi.

[Utilizer]

Drones are not exactly quiet. The vast majority of cats travel very quietly indeed, and generally do not arouse suspicions wherever they go.

Unless they go in a dog’s yard, sometimes.

[Utilizer]

Why expend all that effort when you can simply sit back and let the feline do all the work?

[quimby]

This is a hoot. Jack, your idea of using a quad-copter is liable to give google ideas. The could use their self-driving car testing program...

[quimby]

Its a great match of tiny-tech and feline stealth.

[Utilizer]

Hmmm. “The link has more info...” should have been “The link below has more info...”.

Need to proofread more.

[az_gila]

This is a hoot. Jack, your idea of using a quad-copter is liable to give google ideas. The could use their self-driving car testing program...

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Errr... Google already did it with their mapping cars...

http://blogs.computerworld.com/20106/google_engineer_at_center_of_street_view_wi_fi_controversy_authored_the_groundbreaking_netstumbler_app

[Utilizer]

Indeed. Look how tiny the entire unit is -less than a dollar bill in size.

I am certain it could go even smaller if you placed both boards one over the other with smaller and shorter wires.