No household item is safe from Samy Kamkar’s curiosity: He’s tweaked a kid’s toy to open garage doors, 3D-printed a Masterlock-cracking robot, devised a fake charger that can sniff keystrokes, pranked a friend with a doorbell-ringing text message attack, and built a flying drone that can seek out and wirelessly hijack other victim drones.
Kamkar is the one-man production team and star of a video series he calls Applied Hacking, a YouTube channel that has grown into a tour-de-force display of the 30-year-old coder’s prolific digital mischief.
“I just assume everything is vulnerable,” Kamkar says. “It’s a pretty safe bet.”
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