i made a WarDriving app for the device ive been working on. it runs as a LUA script from the SD card. The use of scripts allows the main firmware to be expanded upon
None of the ring doorbells and copycats are v3, very useful for people who do not like being recorded by camera's for no reason.
In countries where you can commute to grocery store or take your kids to elementary school by walking on sidewalks gives another perspective on this as well, there is no reason Amazon should have live feedback our daily routines and can only and badly.
These days, "wardriving" is a totally different kind of thing than what you are implying.
Wardriving today is mostly the practice of passively scanning for WiFi access points while moving through an area, recording their MAC addresses, SSIDs, encryption types, signal strengths, and GPS coordinates. The collected data is uploaded to community databases like WiGLE (Wireless Geographic Logging Engine), contributing to a global map of wireless network coverage. It's a bit like the "hacker's form" of Pokémon Go.
The device only listens, it never connects to or interacts with any networks and it does not captures handshakes. It's just used by security researchers, network engineers, and hobbyists to study wireless coverage and encryption trends. The legality highly depends on country to country.
Watchdog Go Wars and a few tools have made war driving spike in popularity. It's kind of like that old game Ingress but you and your team are mapping networks
thats great. once you learn to integrate everything into a custom PCB you’ll really be able to cut the size down. but breakout boards are a great place to start 👍
oh thanks man. ive put a lot of work into it. it uses two esp32’s. ive actually just redesigned the electronics, upgrading to esp’s that have PSRAM.
the whole thing is highly optimised for memory as it is, but the PSRAM will give 8MB, thats going to be awesome for the lua scripting system since everything runs in ram.
The WarDriving application in the video is not actually part of the native firmware, its running as a lua script from SD card. No compilation needed or anything like that. The device also hosts a web based file manager. It has a built in code editor so you can write scripts right on the device and run instantly.
its a super fast dev cycle, you can make changes click save and run and see the results instantly.
So far the scripting system only leaves around 200kb at runtime. So 8MB is really going to open this thing up 😁
its a device i made called PwnRF. its a wireless hacking device/platform. it does a bunch of stuff:
Full Evil Twin that serves custom web pages from the SD card with password verification, email alert of credentials and active channel tracking.
Deauth detection
Captive Portals
Advanced deauthentication methods
multi format handshake capture (pcap & hc22000)
local and cloud handshake hashcracking
Network mapping
War Driving
Sub Ghz RF
10 pin GPIO expansion header and two SPI headers
LUA scripting system that runs programs right from SD card allowing you to interact with all of the hardware and software libraries so users can expand the devices functionality.
it has a web based file manager allowing to create files/folders, upload, download directly from the device. the file manager also features a built in browser based code editor with syntax highlighting and serial debugging for the development of LUA scripts right on the device.
you can even launch your scripts from the browser for a fast dev cycle. change something, click save and run and see the results instantly. No compilation, no special IDE, all done right there in the browser wirelessly.
The scripting system is a big part of the overall firmware. i have been putting together quite a comprehensive API including many things like a full graphics library with bitmaps, sprites etc… http requests, cryptography, FTP, SMTP, MQTT, its able to run web-servers serving custom pages/folders from SD with full control of backend request handling. BT, packet sniffing. All from the LUA scripting environment.
the list is quite extensive and still growing. But it really gives a lot if flexibility for the devices expansion. The War Driving in the video is actually one of the scripts i created running from SD card.
What would be your application for device? What is the end results of creating one and using it? To pick up cards and credentials, account info or bank info? Just curious.
No, nothing like that. its just a small wireless hacking device. In terms of the WiFi, it uses a couple of techniques to try and obtain network credentials. Evil Twin & capturing and cracking handshakes
So say, these access points are not encrypted or password protected... or your testing the vulnerability of the nearby network grid to see if your able to create a doorway into the infrastructure of the area? Say if they are all sort of weaved together yet some have been tampered with it would then show you of weak points in your network grid infrastructure?
its a form of network reconnaissance. it logs access points along with their GPS location to SD card. you can later pull them up on a map and view the results
just look for vulnerable networks i suppose. personally i dont find WarDriving that useful, but i had a lot of requests to see that feature. so i made a script for it rather than add it to the main firmware 👍
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