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2016-03-31 14:51:25 Post No. 970577
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2016-03-31 14:51:25
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Saw a thread about 6 months back where somebody went into details about setting up battery powered routers in public places that connected users to nearby free wifi and uploaded any data that passed through them to a google drive or something similar.
The routers just acted as a middle man between the users and the free wifi so neither side would know anything was wrong. It looked like an expensive hobby since each one of these devices was made to be disposable (an abandoned backpack filled with wires would obviously get a lot of attention once it was found) but it seemed like an effective way of mining data without too much risk as long as it was done properly and it also seems like a good electronics/security project.
It's similar to a device called an "F-Bomb" that uses a Pogoplug to upload the data and is much more compact but this seems kind of like cheating to me and I can't find a cheap supply of Pogoplugs to teardown for parts. A way to make it with a Rasberry Pie as the base would be great but this doesn't seem feasable based on what I've heard.
I don't expect anybody saved the thread, but does anybody know of anything similar or places online where this sort of thing can be discussed without being frowned upon?
Also, does anybody know how to defend against something like this? End to end encryption is an obvious start but does this totally beat this or is more protection necessary?
