The Piratebox is a small portable Wi-Fi access point modified with a custom firmware to be used as malicious Man-In-The-Middle attacks. The project was started by David Darts, the chair of the NYU Art Department, when he was looking for a simple way to share files between him and his students. Darts’ original Piratebox was an amalgamation of off-the-shelf devices, and the moniker originated from the lunchbox that he used to hold all the components.”]
Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/security-world/2013/11/the-piratebox/