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  $50 F-BOMB: Cheap spying for stalkers, hackers, or cash-strapped feds

  Posted: January 30th, 2012, 10:42pm CET by Digg

  At ShmooCon, a security researcher showed off the F-BOMB, a tiny and disposable 'spy computer' which could provide super cheap GPS surveillance for cash-strapped feds or future stalkers. It could also be used by hackers to collect data and send it over Wi-Fi. F-BOMB won a DARPA Cyber Fast Track research award. The inexpensive and common hardware also makes it nearly impossible for 'gun-toting bad guys' to finger just precisely who dropped the spying F-BOMB on them.