AR.Drone surveillance with 3G connection instead of wifi
Researchers from the computer science department at the Stevens
Institute of Technology have added a 3G-radio to an AR.Drone.
Because of the mobile hookup the AR.Drone can be controlled from
a greater distance than the normal wifi connection and can be
maneuvred into the range of a wifi-network. It could then attack
that network and gain access to the network with the onboard
software. And once it has gained access it could be used to
issue commands to a botnet, acting as a command-and-control-
server, powered by a small solar panel. Because the attackers
would dial-in to the AR.Drone through the 3G-connection and the
drone would us wifi to hookup to a third party network it would
be much harder to find out who was responsible for the botnet
attacks. You can read further details about the SkyNET project
in the paper that was presented by the researchers at the USENIX
Security Conference in August. Spooky stuff if you ask me.  This
entry was posted in 3G