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DHS bought a dog-like robot that it modified with an antenna array to let law enforcement overload people’s home networks to disable any “internet of things” devices, according a transcript obtained by EFF’s Dave Maass and shared with @404mediaco. https://www.404media.co/dhs-has-a-ddos-robot-to-disable-internet-of-things-booby-traps-inside-homes/

DHS Has a DoS Robot to Disable Internet of Things ‘Booby Traps’ Inside Homes

"NEO carries an onboard computer and antenna array that will allow officers the ability to create a ‘denial-of-service’ event to disable ‘Internet of Things’ devices that could potentially cause harm while entry is made."
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Camerondotca
Camerondotca
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erm... and also handily turns off any recording devices so they can human rights violate to their little heart's content.
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Matthew Cowen
Matthew Cowen
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This will no doubt speed up efforts to DDoS the Robots themselves. You don't operate in a vacuum.
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Johanness A. Nilsson
Johanness A. Nilsson
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Mitigated via LoRaWAN; immune to a consumer grade WiFi DDoS attack. Engineer LoRa trap nodes to employ frequency hopping, ADR, & message authentication. Use network server throttling, monitoring, gateway redundancy, encryption, key rotation on access control, and geo filters. #HackThePlanet
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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
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Once Upon A Time I produced a system that would intercept 2G SMS messages and, if desired, block them. The company I did it for claimed, very vaguely (I got no detail from them at all), that the target market was things like blocking SMS-triggered bombs. But, clearly, the technology moves on.
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echo
echo
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this is absolutely insane. it reads like something out of a fictional universe
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Dan Herbert
Dan Herbert
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Wouldn't cutting power to a building be cheaper and more effective in 99% of situations than this?
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MoiraEve
MoiraEve
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How many people have “booby trapped” their homes using smart devices? Is this a problem that really needs solving? How about some common sense gun reform laws instead? @404mediaco
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DanDan420
DanDan420
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"Booby traps" what a cute excuse! They want to disable CCTV cameras. That's the "Internet of things" that could cause harm on entry.
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Danielle Crawford
Danielle Crawford
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Coming soon, only in America: Man with pacemaker uses shotgun on eDog, claims violation of 2nd Amendment and FCC interference. Courts throw papers in the air and say "fuck this shit, we're out.”
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MegatronicThronBanks
MegatronicThronBanks
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Is there a YT channel yet where we can watch these things get taken out by snipers from a distance or by airborne drones or is that still a few months away?
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Shark Attak
Shark Attak
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Yes, because I'm totally going to use an Arduino to set off my door-bomb, instead of a good old switch.
This is probably an excuse to either blow some taxpayers' money, or ramp up electronic surveillance.
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Bill Zaumen
Bill Zaumen
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What are they going to do when someone had previously installed CAT 5 or 6 wiring during a remodel (very easy to do when the sheetrock is not yet in place).
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Chris from Earth
Chris from Earth
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Is it going to self-destruct the first time they use it or does it drag a long CAT6 cable behind it? If you say it's autonomous, please advance the doomsday clock by a few seconds.
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Nazo
Nazo
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This sounds dangerously close to being illegal to me.

Though really DHS itself should be straight up illegal.

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