Scientists build WiFi hunter-killer drone and call it SkyNET... Viene Tormenta!

By Daniel Cooper posted Sep 10th 2011 5:58AM

You'd think scientists would proscribe certain names for their inventions -- you wouldn't be taken seriously if your supercomputer was called HAL 9000, WOPR or Proteus IV would you? Well, a team from the Stevens Institute of Technology isn't listening, because it's developing an aerial drone and calling it SkyNET. A Linux box, strapped to a Parrot A.R. Drone, can fly within range of your home wireless network and electronically attack it from the air. Whilst internet-only attacks are traceable to some extent, drone attacks are difficult to detect until it's too late -- you'd have to catch it in the act and chase it off with a long-handled pitchfork, or something. The team is working on refining the technology to make it cheaper than the $600 it currently costs and advise that people toughen up their domestic wireless security. We advise they stop pushing us ever closer towards the Robopocalypse.

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Great. Isn't skynet from the Terminator movies. Does this make it the begining of the end :(

LOL yes the name is from that. Other than the name though the actual reason for building such a device is beyond me. I mean who really needs this? I can only think and hope only certain official authorities need or want something like this. This takes war driving to new levels.

lolololoololololololoololololol

Someone in the UK government clearly has the same sense of humour:
Skynet (satellite) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Originally Posted by Bob369963

LOL yes the name is from that. Other than the name though the actual reason for building such a device is beyond me. I mean who really needs this? I can only think and hope only certain official authorities need or want something like this. This takes war driving to new levels.

Damn, I'd let the Chinese make cheap copies and then scare every nation with an internet connection, worse than a nuclear arsenal, tbh. :D