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Darpa Funds Hack Machine You’d Never Notice

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭Dude111


    Yea it LOOKS BIGGER than a usual power strip,ALERT PPL WOULD NOTICE!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    I so want one.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Dude111 wrote: »
    Yea it LOOKS BIGGER than a usual power strip,ALERT PPL WOULD NOTICE!

    No they wouldn't. People are idiots. I know a certain Director of Finance who clicked on a link promising him a free iPad, because he wanted a free iPad. Surprise surprise, it was not legit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 609 ✭✭✭jumbone


    Dude111 wrote: »
    Yea it LOOKS BIGGER than a usual power strip,ALERT PPL WOULD NOTICE!

    Surely it's meant to look like a UPS? That's why you need to plug all the computers with critical data on them into this device wink wink nudge nudge


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,813 ✭✭✭BaconZombie


    They should of installed it into something like this that is rack mountable:

    xgtog.jpg


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,771 ✭✭✭Dude111


    syklops wrote:
    No they wouldn't. People are idiots.
    Ahhhhhhhhh but not all of us bud!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,726 ✭✭✭gerryk


    syklops wrote: »
    I so want one.

    Build one. Get a Raspberry Pi, stick Raspberry Pwn on it, Add a small switch, and Robert's yer mother's brother.

    Oh, and go on holidays with the change from the >1K price tag this thing costs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 945 ✭✭✭a5y


    gerryk wrote: »
    Build one. Get a Raspberry Pi, stick Raspberry Pwn on it, Add a small switch, and Robert's yer mother's brother.

    Oh, and go on holidays with the change from the >1K price tag this thing costs.

    Tsk, you mightn't even need to disquise it.

    "Hey, is that is a Raspberry Pi?"

    "Cool! Mine still hasn't arrived! Whose is it?"

    "Dunno. Hey! Lets plug it in, see what it does!"

    "OK... Hey! Look, its stealing all our data!"

    "...COOL!"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,726 ✭✭✭gerryk


    a5y wrote: »
    Tsk, you mightn't even need to disquise it.

    "Hey, is that is a Raspberry Pi?"

    "Cool! Mine still hasn't arrived! Whose is it?"

    "Dunno. Hey! Lets plug it in, see what it does!"

    "OK... Hey! Look, its stealing all our data!"

    "...COOL!"

    Sorry... since we were talking about a hack-tool masquerading as a power-strip, I thought that bit was implied, but for those that missed it.

    Stick it in a power strip!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,455 ✭✭✭RUCKING FETARD


    gerryk wrote: »
    Build one. Get a Raspberry Pi, stick Raspberry Pwn on it, Add a small switch, and Robert's yer mother's brother.

    Oh, and go on holidays with the change from the >1K price tag this thing costs.
    Raspberry Pi Power Strip


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