F-BOMB is a Tiny $50 Computer That Makes Spying Terrifyingly Easy
The F-BOMB was made by Brendan O’Connor, a security researcher, and is being funded by DARPA‘s Cyber Fast Track program. It’s a pretty simple — and tiny — rig. At 4 x 3.5 x 1-inches, the F-BOMB is small enough to be secreted away easily; O’Connor has a model that can be easily hidden in a carbon monoxide detector. But its small size doesn’t take away from its functionality. Built with a PogoPlug, 8 gigs of flash memory, a couple of sensors, and a homebrew Linux-based OS, the F-BOMB can make short work of a Wi-Fi security and start sniffing around for interesting information.
Of course, the other really important quality of the F-BOMB is how cheap it is. At around $50 a pop, the F-BOMB is perfect for use as a disposable device. As mentioned in the expanded acronym, the F-BOMB could easily be dropped from a drone or fired from a gun of some sort (in resonably large quantities, as well) in order to snoop on targets in military scenarios as well as domestic ones. Think of it as a sort of Wi-Fi hacking grenade, or mine.
