{"id":23550,"date":"2016-03-15T14:32:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T21:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/darpa-calls-for-creative-individuals-to-weaponize-common-items"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:06:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:06:05","slug":"darpa-calls-for-creative-individuals-to-weaponize-common-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/darpa-calls-for-creative-individuals-to-weaponize-common-items","title":{"rendered":"DARPA Calls For Creative Individuals to Weaponize Common Items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-calls-for-creative-individuals-to-weaponize-common-items.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is this another strategy to fight terrorism by seeing from techies and others the various ways terrorists can take every day items to create weapons?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Do you want to be a MacGyver and turn everyday household items into Decepticons? Then DARPA\u2019s new Improv program wants you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This sounds like a <em>Transformers<\/em> movie. Or a <em>MacGyver<\/em> episode. Heck, this could even be a precursor to Skynet and future Terminators. OK, that last one may not apply, but a new DARPA program wants people who can weaponize a toaster.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched a program called Improv and is soliciting creative minds to submit proposals on how common off-the-shelf, internet-connected items can be used as weapons.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/news\/view\/166847-DARPA-Improv-Initiative-Seeks-People-to-Weaponize-Everyday-Items#&gid=gallery_5979&pid=1\">http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/news\/view\/166847-DARPA-Impro...5979&pid=1<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this another strategy to fight terrorism by seeing from techies and others the various ways terrorists can take every day items to create weapons? Do you want to be a MacGyver and turn everyday household items into Decepticons? Then DARPA\u2019s new Improv program wants you. This sounds like a Transformers movie. Or a MacGyver [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,418,2414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-internet","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23550","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=23550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68008,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23550\/revisions\/68008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}