(The impatient can just scroll through to 04:45 to see the news manipulation in action)
With hardware hidden in a small, innocuous wall plug, we demonstrate wireless alteration of news headline:
"Beijing seeks to ease US fears"
to:
"Beijing to invest in US Army"
.. on an Acer Netbook, Macbook Pro and Nokia N900 smartphone.
This is done with the following trivial packet header and payload filter:
if (ip.proto == TCP && tcp.src == 80)
{
if (search(DATA.data, "Beijing\ seeks\ to\ ease\ US\ fears"))
{
replace("Beijing\ seeks\ to\ ease\ US\ fears", "Beijing\ to\ invest\ in\ US\ army\ ");
}
}
This could just as equally be performed in any cafe, school, library or airport with a remote user logging in and manipulating news content read by wireless network users. No connection with - or modification of - any software on the laptops, tablets, phones affected is required.
The skeptical should view in HD video to get a closer look at those wonderfully informative terminals!
newstweek.com
Be sure to check out out project video to get an overview of this project
vimeo.com/21707290