Relying on cats to do things...
... is an exercise in futility.
A security boffin has created a 'WarKitteh' capable of sniffing Wi-Fi packets. Tenacity evil genius researcher Gene Bransfield (@gbransfield) combined a series of garden-variety technologies to evolve the humble house cat into a walking, purring WiFi war machine capable of pawing packets while maintaining enough agility to …
"the equipment was taken out of the cat; the cat was re-sewn for a second time, and lived a long and happy life afterwards"
Scratch Monkey levels of Unbelievable reached!
Not to be confused with the story Scratch Monkey by Charlie Stross
I would have thought the beauty of using cats is that once you reach a critical mass of them - it doesn't matter whether 1 cat or many cats pass by your target - you can be assured that one will at some point.
Besides the logical next step is equipping them with Google Glasses and guiding them to their target with judicious application of AR fluttering birds and scampering mice.
Does this mean I can now buy a crossbow to protect myself from potential Syrian hackers?
No, I really have no intentions at stopping the buggers from crapping in my garden, none at all, it is all in the interests of National Security and the protection of my fellow (and fellow-ess) citizens.