AFTER Anonymous and the NSA scandal, the new threat to your privacy digital could come from an innocent kitten. One of the cutest ones that are seen in countless movies on the web. A siamese, to be precise, able to sneak into your wireless network. The idea, so absurd as to seem like a joke, is an American security expert, Gene Bransfield, and was created to raise public awareness on the issue of the protection of your home network. It’s called WarKitteh and is a cat who, while going around the city, reports to his master such networks are weaker and easier to break. “An animal much less conspicuous and can cover a wide area in a short time.’d Be amazed at how many people have a router at home unprotected networks with simple to hack,” says Bransfield before an audience of experts and professionals the work during the last Def Con, exhibition dedicated to hacking and network security that is held every year in Las Vegas. “On average, three out of ten are wireless networks without a password or with protection systems, very low,” says Bransfield. “We in industry are not good enough to communicate to people what risks they run if they use poorly protected wireless networks. We should be the first to raise public awareness on this issue,” says Bransfield. In short, the project WarKitteh is nothing more than a provocation, a way without a doubt original to show how people will not be careful in certain details. Different, however, was the target of the previous project of Mr. Bransfield, Denial Service Dog, a dog that was carrying on his back a device that can turn off the tv remote. Bransfield has used it during the World Cup in Brazil, to go around and turn off the television neighbors during games. “But that was just a joke, nothing more,” says Bransfield in Las Vegas. “I’ve never used during the games in the United States, it was too dangerous.” We are accustomed to animals able to make any firm: rescue people, protect our security, even smell the mines in the minefield, but a dog that turns off the tv in the betrayal was missing. In the United States, meanwhile, the experiment of Gene Bransfield has made a sensation both for its originality, and for the results obtained. “We talk about privacy, to protect our lives on the web, we are appalled by scandals such as the NSA. Then, though, you do not have the foresight to use the minimum protections for our home networks,” says Bransfield. For the future, the American engineer is working on a system to make it smaller and lighter, designed to be mounted on the back of a bird. So, if by chance you see a pigeon lean on your windowsill, better send him away. You never know.
The project WarKitteh consists of a collar for cats with GPS sensor and a system capable of analyzing safety and protection level of the wi-fi networks. The results are sent to a computer or a smartphone. Initially, Bransfield had tried to make a coat for animals in a modified cell for the purpose, but the cat did not like and did nothing but roll on the ground to get rid of the cumbersome burden. A few months later, the American engineer starts working on the idea of the collar: “It was the only way to get the cat to cooperate. Components I used only readily available on the internet or in an electronics store, anyone could do it,” says . The collar is put in place last November: The tester is a Siamese cat, Coco. While Coco went for a walk in the gardens of the neighboring houses, unbeknownst to him spying and collecting data. Although the idea may seem ridiculous, the results make you think: of the 23 wireless connections unearthed from the cat in the first session, four were not protected by a password, and many used the standard WEP security, much easier to decipher than the more widespread standard WPA-2 (the one used by most routers on the market).
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