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Raspberry Pi for Secret Agents

By : Stefan Sjogelid
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Raspberry Pi for Secret Agents

By: Stefan Sjogelid

Overview of this book

Ever wished you could play around with all the neat gadgets your favorite spies use (like James Bond or Michael Westen)? With the introduction of the remarkable Raspberry Pi and a few USB accessories, anybody can now join in on the action.Discover how to turn your Raspberry Pi into a multipurpose secret agent tool! Through a series of fun, easy-to-follow projects you'll learn how to set up audio/video surveillance, explore your Wi-Fi network, play pranks on your friends, and even learn how to free your Raspberry Pi from the constraints of the wall socket.Raspberry Pi for Secret Agents starts out with the initial setup of your Raspberry Pi, guides you through a number of pranks and secret agent techniques, and then shows you how to apply what you've learned out in the real world. Learn how to configure your operating system for maximum mischief and start exploring the audio, video, and Wi-Fi projects. Learn how to record, listen, or talk to people from a distance and how to distort your voice. You can even plug in your webcam and set up a motion detector with an alarm, or find out what the other computers on your Wi-Fi network are up to. Once you've mastered the techniques, combine them with a battery pack and GPS for the ultimate off-road spy kit.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Raspberry Pi for Secret Agents
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


We started this chapter by focusing on the general airspace surrounding the Wi-Fi network in our home. Using the Kismet application, we learned how to obtain information about the access point itself and any associated Wi-Fi adapters, as well as how to protect our network from sneaky rouge access points.

Shifting the focus to the insides of our network, we used the Nmap software to quickly map out all the running computers on our network and we also looked at the more advanced features of Nmap that can be used to produce a detailed HTML report about each connected machine.

We then moved on to the fascinating topics of network sniffing, ARP poisoning, and man-in-the-middle attacks with the frightfully effective Ettercap application. We saw how to use Ettercap to spy on network traffic and web browsers, how to manipulate HTML code in transit to display unexpected images, and how to drop packets to keep your network guests from hogging up all the juicy bandwidth.

Thankfully, there are...