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So let's hear it for SensePost, an information security company that buzzed a pilotless craft above the Black Hat security conference in Singapore last week, plucking information from the smartphones of hundreds of attendees below, the BBC reported





SensePost has hacked people at conferences before, but always via ground-based hardware housing its Snoopy software. This was the first time that Snoopy took to the air, where it can cover much larger areas.





"You can also fly out of audio-visual range - so you can't see or hear it, meaning you can bypass physical security - men with guns, that sort of thing," SensePost's Glenn Wilkinson told the BBC.







Snoopy can invade any gadget like a smartphone or laptop when the device's Wi-Fi is switched on.

It was only a matter of time before someone sent out a drone to steal data.