Insurgents Use $26 Software to Hack Drone Feeds

[lightzy]

It's probably almost all false information.
Of course some of it may be true information that benefits iranians and sacrifices some allied troops so that the iranians keep thinking that its real... there's no free chicken.

The US loses nothing by publishing these 'reports' of 'gross ineptitude'. iranians think they're being ubar haxors and the US keeps up the charade.

the only fly (and blessing) is that most of the american public (yeah thats u) thinks the military are all blundering idiots. Which is the cost of being truly successful in the game of information/counter information.

 

[xrodney]

[citation][nom]scurvywombat[/nom]"Predator drones are built by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. of San Diego. Some of its communications technology is proprietary, so widely used encryption systems aren't readily compatible, said people familiar with the matter."WSJ[/citation]
Thats BS, you can put encryption chip right before output to antena and you dont need to care what data signal is entering it.

 

[Guest]

DID ANYONE GIVE THE MILITARY ANY CREDIT FOR DELIBERATELY PLANTING RED HERRINGS ???

 

[Rancifer7]

I like my Herring red...

 

[jsc]

Thats BS, you can put encryption chip right before output to antena and you dont need to care what data signal is entering it.

You mean "before output data to transmitter", but yes, neglecting to encrypt downlink data is, well, short-sighted.

 

[sliem]

"Billion dollar project fail"

 

[tmike]

Lame article reprint. This is neither a hack, as it is open comm, nor a fail, as it was a known vulnerability to be dealt with when necessary. Were it a hack, it would be one of the least successful in recent memory given the apparent efficacy of the drones.

 

[Computer_Lots]

Iranian terrorist intercepts video from Predator...
Sees his house in the video...
Video zooms in to his head...
BOOM!!!!!

 

[joefriday]

Don't know how this is such a security risk. The damn things fly in daylight, at fairly low altitude, via propeller propulsion.....These things are visible to the naked eye folks...No need to get video feed to see where they're at, just look up in the air!

 

[nachowarrior]

another ad on toms that breaks the page, i can scroll down for all eternity. making this web site more and more lame and useless.