You saw Code.org Facebook post last January referring to Drones Will Be Everywhere Watching, Listening, and…Planting Millions of Trees? as “1.001 uses for drones.”
Here is use #1,002:
How Drones Can Find and Hack Internet-of-Things Network Things From the Sky by Mohit Kumar.
From the post:
Security researchers have developed a Flying Drone with a custom-made tracking tool capable of sniffing out data from the devices connected to the Internet – better known as the Internet-of-things.
Under its Internet of Things Map Project, a team of security researchers at the Texas-based firm Praetorian wanted to create a searchable database that will be the Shodan search engine for SCADA devices.
Located More Than 1600+ Devices Using Drone
To make it possible, the researchers devised a drone with their custom built connected-device tracking appliance and flew it over Austin, Texas in real time.
During an 18 minute flight, the drone found nearly 1,600 Internet-connected devices, of which 453 IoT devices are made by Sony and 110 by Philips. You can see the full Austin map here.
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The map of Austin is way cool! What IoT map do you want to create?
Which reminds me, how do you defend against the intrusion of a drone? According to the Wall Street Journal, your options are limited and expensive.
I didn’t see the IoT scanning drone at Praetorian in either finished or kit form.
But I expect IoT scanning drones on the virtual shelves of online retailers long before the holiday season of 2015.
You will be able to spot popular holiday shopping venues by the clouds of drones sniffing for vulnerable automobiles.
PS: Give the military a couple of years to get into the IoT. Flying an IoT sniffing drone over the Pentagon should be a real hoot.