{"id":40317,"date":"2014-08-15T15:24:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T15:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/slavin-this-weekend-at-the-defcon-hacker\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T15:28:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T22:28:12","slug":"slavin-this-weekend-at-the-defcon-hacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/slavin-this-weekend-at-the-defcon-hacker\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-40317 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/slavin-this-weekend-at-the-defcon-hacker\/attachment\/40318\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_nackbzh3sw1qz7eu8o1_400-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/slavin.tumblr.com\/post\/94813194213\/this-weekend-at-the-defcon-hacker-conference-in\">slavin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;This weekend at the DefCon hacker conference in Las Vegas, Bransfield will debut the next logical step: The \u201cWarKitteh\u201d collar, a device he built for less than $100 that turns any outdoor cat into a Wifi-sniffing hacker accomplice.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the title of his DefCon talk\u2014\u201dHow To Weaponize Your Pets\u201d\u2013Bransfield admits WarKitteh doesn\u2019t represent a substantial security threat. Rather, it\u2019s the sort of goofy hack designed to entertain the con\u2019s hacker audience. Still, he was surprised by just how many networks tracked by his data-collecting cat used WEP, a form of wireless encryption known for more than ten years to be easily broken. \u201cMy intent was not to show people where to get free Wi-Fi. I put some technology on a cat and let it roam around because the idea amused me,\u201d says Bransfield, who works for the security consultancy Tenacity. \u201cBut the result of this cat research was that there were a lot more open and WEP-encrypted hot spots out there than there should be in 2014.\u201d (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2014\/08\/how-to-use-your-cat-to-hack-your-neighbors-wi-fi\/?mbid=social_fb\">How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor\u2019s Wi-Fi | Threat Level | WIRED<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>slavin: &ldquo;This weekend at the DefCon hacker conference in Las Vegas, Bransfield will debut the next logical step: The \u201cWarKitteh\u201d collar, a device he built for less than $100 that turns any outdoor cat into a Wifi-sniffing hacker accomplice. Despite the title of his DefCon talk\u2014\u201dHow To Weaponize Your Pets\u201d\u2013Bransfield admits WarKitteh doesn\u2019t represent a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1537],"class_list":["post-40317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-critical-toys","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-auh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40319,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40317\/revisions\/40319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}