The 19-year-old created a hack system to teach people the importance of security

This suitcase is a versatile hack system, there is also a self-destruct USB device to erase everything.

Gliding across the vast ocean called Reddit, the reporter The Next Web noticed a project called SpyPi : a hack device specially designed to educate people about the importance of data security. - it will let you play an attacker and steal data.

Sarah on the hack system SpyPi.

It is a simple system, but it is worth noting that it is made up of a junior high school girl. In fact, SpyPi is the project I do for graduation. Curious about the good sister behind this system, The Next Web reporter contacted the poster on Reddit.

'Technology today satisfies a lot of our needs in so many ways, so much so that we forget about the dangers,' said the 19-year-old Sarah from Bern, Switzerland and 'mother'. of the hacked device. 'I created SpyPi as part of a graduation project. And the urge to do it is to create another way to access data security. '

In today's society, I realize that there is a trend that is not very good, which is the user disregard for privacy of personal information . 'People worry about data security and security, but at the same time their actions are extremely careless. Although there are many reasons for them to be so, this is still a worrying issue. '

She also talked about the new laws that her country applies, laws that can make information that should be kept confidential will no longer be safe.

SpyPi hack device.

'In 2015, Switzerland passed the Nachrichtendienstgesetz law , allowing security and intelligence agencies to collect more data to prevent terrorism , ' Sarah told reporter The Next Web.

'During the election through the new law . I was startled to see that people had easily given up their privacy without ever asking a question of how the entire law affected. The law has been passed. And I feel that many people support this law without having enough information about what they are facing. '

It was then that the girl who was just in high school found that she could change people's perceptions of the importance of information security.

Instead of sitting down writing long words that no one wants to read, Sarah puts the information owners as a hacker, so they can see for themselves that their information is easily stolen and accessed. how.

'Because the advice has never been successful, this time I decided to create a system that allows people to touch this security aspect in person,' said Sarah.

'How to make people excited about IT is indeed a tough challenge. But everyone has one thing in common: it is a dream to become a hacker from childhood '.

'That's why I created this hack device. SpyPi will let people understand the importance of keeping information private and protecting their privacy , ' he said. 'In order to make people really feel it, I created data attack programs that can affect everything in a person's daily life, such as paying online. , social network or wireless network '.

With that idea and ideals, Sarah created the SpyPi system with five key applications, so that users can see how their data is "fragile and fragile" . SpyPi includes a network scanning device, a password (brute-force dictionary), mitmproxy data capture tool (a tool that allows you to sit between the data flow and observe everything - MITM is the middle-man-in-the-middle, RFID radio spoofing tool (RFID spoofer), and a Twitter data digging tool.

Network scanners are programmed to display the existing information of a particular network, informing you of obvious weaknesses so you can 'patch' them before someone takes advantage of it.

The total cost of all components makes SpyPi about $ 400.

The brute-force dictionary (brute-force dictionary) software is added so you can see how easy it is to find a password that is not secure enough. The Twitter data digging tool shows you bad objects that can collect your public information, turning them into data to analyze your habits.

In this hacked device, there is also a killer USB - killer USB . When plugging this device into any device with a USB port, it will "grill" it.

The total cost of all components makes SpyPi about $ 400. Besides the things mentioned above, Sarah also uses the Raspberry Pi 3 circuit board, a 7-inch display screen, a small mouse / keyboard set, and an RFID radio identification reader named RC-522 .

Sarah created this device for educational purposes, but she also admitted that it could be used for bad purposes - a powerful weapon if it fell into the wrong hands. But the main goal of SpuPi is to highlight the importance of information security, ways to protect yourself on the Internet. And yes, this hack device does a good job.