Hacker's tiny $50 spy computer hides in offices, drops from drones

Just in case you wanted to spy on someone or pretend to be James Bond for cheap, a security researcher is developing an easy to build spy computer to gather intel.  

Despite its name, O’Connor says the F-BOMB is designed to be a platform for all sorts of applications on its Linux operating system. Outfit it with temperature or humidity sensors, for instance, and it can be used for meteorological research or other innocent data-collecting.  But install some Wifi-cracking software or add a $15 GPS module, and it can snoop on data networks or track a target’s location, O’Connor adds. As is often the case with these kinds of hacker projects, he says the devices are only intended for penetration testing–finding security flaws in clients’ networks in order to fix them —and wouldn’t comment on what DARPA might do with the technology. 

As much as I dislike the government needing to use acronyms for naming everything, I have to admit, there is a lot of potential with this one.  

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