Drone Spam

U.S. researchers took up the Department of Homeland Security on its $1000 dare to try to hack into a military drone plane–€”and succeeded. What happens if Russian hackers get into one?

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  • OMG! Is nothing sacred???

  • Actually, the researchers hacked a civilian drone that was using unencrypted GPS technology.

    http://mashable.com/2012/06/29/drone-hacking/

    http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18643134

    I found several articles on the topic. They all mentioned that military drones use encrypted signals. Different authors had different opinions of the difficulty of hacking these.

  • It is shockingly easy to hack into anything. Doing so undetected, and without a trace of who you are is much more difficult. If the goal is overt it is simple, if it is covert, it is a very difficult task.

  • Russel, I don’t know if you noticed the final paragraph in that BBC article to which you provided a link :

    «But the big worry is – it also means that it wouldn’t be too hard for [a very skilled person] to work out how to un-encrypt military drones and spoof them, and that could be extremely dangerous because they could turn them on the wrong people.»

    I say not to worry ; the US military itself is doing a bang-up job (pardon the pun !) of turning military drones «on the wrong people». It scarcely requires outside aid….

    Henri

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