[http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/09/skynetbotnetdrone.jpg](http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/10/scientists-build-wifi-hunter-killer-drone-and-call-it-skynet/)
You'd think scientists would proscribe certain names for their inventions -- you wouldn't be taken seriously if your supercomputer was called [HAL 9000](http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/28/movie-gadget-friday-2010-the-year-we-make-contact/), [WOPR](http://www.engadget.com/2004/10/23/movie-gadget-friday-the-w-o-p-r-from-wargames/) or Proteus IV would you? Well, a team from the [Stevens Institute of Technology](http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/3d-mapping-drone-fires-off-lasers-from-a-mile-away-video/) isn't listening, because it's developing an aerial drone and calling it SkyNET. A Linux box, strapped to a [Parrot A.R. Drone](http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/15/parrot-ar-drone-hits-the-us-this-september-for-299/), can fly within range of your home wireless network and electronically attack it from the air. Whilst internet-only attacks are traceable to some extent, drone attacks are difficult to detect until it's too late -- you'd have to catch it in the act and chase it off with a long-handled pitchfork, or something. The team is working on refining the technology to make it cheaper than the $600 it currently costs and advise that people toughen up their domestic wireless security. We advise they stop pushing us ever closer towards the [Robopocalypse.](http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/08/robopocalypse-coming-soon-to-a-theater-near-you-spielberg-to-sm/)
Scientists build WiFi hunter-killer drone and call it SkyNET… Viene Tormenta! originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 10 Sep 2011 05:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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