DARPA-Funded Hacker's Tiny $50 Spy Computer Hides In Offices, Drops From Drones
Even more embarrassing than a student discovering your GPS tracking device on his car, as the FBI found out last year, is having to ask him to give the expensive piece of equipment back.
So security researcher Brendan O?Connor is trying a different approach to spy hardware: building a sensor-equipped surveillance-capable computer that?s so cheap it can be sacrificed after one use, with off-the-shelf parts that anyone can buy and assemble for less than fifty dollars.
If some target is surrounded by bad men with guns, you don?t want to have to retrieve this, but you also don?t want to have to pay four or five hundred dollars for every use,? says O?Connor. ?The idea is that it?s as close to free as possible. So you can throw a bunch of these sensors at a target and get away with losing a couple nodes in the process.?
Guys, I cannot even express to you the MANY MANY applications that this could be used for by the FreeFor. Use your imagination.
