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[Content Note: Invasion of privacy.]

Meet the drone that can hack your phone:

Hackers have developed a drone that can steal the contents of your smartphone -- from your location data to your Amazon password -- and they've been testing it out in the skies of London. The research will be presented next week at the Black Hat Asia cybersecurity conference in Singapore.

The technology equipped on the drone, known as Snoopy, looks for mobile devices with Wi-Fi settings turned on.

Snoopy takes advantage of a feature built into all smartphones and tablets: When mobile devices try to connect to the Internet, they look for networks they've accessed in the past.

...Users can protect themselves by shutting off Wi-Fi connections and forcing their devices to ask before they join networks.

One of the guys who developed the drone, Sensepost security researcher Glenn Wilkinson, says he's "an ethical hacker. The purpose of this research is to raise awareness of the vulnerabilities of smart devices." Good intentions pave the road blah blah.

While most of the applications of this hack are creepy, it could also be used for law enforcement and public safety. During a riot, a drone could fly overhead and identify looters, for example.

For example.