{"id":23488,"date":"2016-03-14T06:01:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T13:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/calling-all-macgyvers-darpas-improv-program-invites-you-to-diy-a-bomb"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:41:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:41:28","slug":"calling-all-macgyvers-darpas-improv-program-invites-you-to-diy-a-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/calling-all-macgyvers-darpas-improv-program-invites-you-to-diy-a-bomb","title":{"rendered":"Calling all MacGyvers: DARPA\u2019s Improv program invites you to DIY a bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/liTcu7uao_4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking techies to help fight terrorism. The US military, after spending decades in a struggle to defend itself against improvised weapons, is now inviting inventors to get explosively creative.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever device this article is currently being read on, in the wrong hands, could become a weapon. Technology such as USBs, off-the-shelf software and cell phones have all been deployed against US or US-backed forces. Now the US hopes to return the favor, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2016\/03\/darpa-to-host-killer-improv-performances-with-hacked-hardware\/\">Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What makes fighting against improvised weapons so difficult is that they can be made from almost anything, from non-military drones to gardening tools. In its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbo.gov\/utils\/view?id=9205311e35b4ee5a22f9b3d1e7b968bc\">announcement<\/a>, DARPA encouraged inventors to use anything from widely-available commercial technology to \u201c<em>highly specialized, domain-specific technology such as construction, salvage, or surveying equipment.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/335313-darpa-improv-weapons-contest\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/335313-darpa-improv-weapons-contest\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is seeking techies to help fight terrorism. The US military, after spending decades in a struggle to defend itself against improvised weapons, is now inviting inventors to get explosively creative. Whatever device this article is currently being read on, in the wrong hands, could become a weapon. Technology [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62420,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23488\/revisions\/62420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}