Students Hack Unmanned Drone
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If you aren't encrypting communications to your drone, then you entirely deserve it when it fires a missile/spies on you from above. I don't see why security should be treated differently from military applications, if a drone fell from the sky onto a crowded road then it could potentially cause a lot of damage by causing an accident.
Too late, banks have been hacked years ago. Here's a few damning cyber-attacks that actually happened and could have the potential to ruin a country or the lives of people around the world.LordFish said:I put to you AES256 hard-coded public key encryption, my college prof said until they invent (if they invent) quantum computers, uncrackable. Yes if the system is designed with flaws than the encryption can be circumvented, but never encrypted data cracked. Just look at the financial sector, hackers can't log into their bank accounts and give themselfs millions of pounds... at least, I hope they can'tBvenged said:
4 Hackers Indicted in $9.5 Million Bank Card Attack - They conducted computer fraud by hacking a card company to stolen information and data which they then used to fraud nearly $10 million dollars from the bank. This happened in 2009:
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/rbs-worldpay/
In 2007, Exstonia's entire electronic infrastructure went into lockdown:
While stealing hundreds of thousands of pounds isn't much to a bank, it's crippling to their repulation and thus, thier business. If you found out your bank was vulnerable and not so secure, would you let them look after your money? Bank hacked, money stolen over internet, crime syndicate to blame:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/three-arrested-in-first-internet-bank-robbery-710780.html
Oh, and Stuxnet and Flame show that you don't need to risk your people's lives or even cyber-hijack weaponry to harm, hamper or spy on an opposing nation: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18393985
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There are ways of getting around things with computers that are sometimes completely abstract. Once again, it wouldn't surprise me if some bright spark figured a way around the military-grade encryption without a quantum computer... or made a quantum computer and got through the encryption directly. The Enigma Cypher unbreakable in WWI, but the Polish cracked it; then the ever-more complicated nazi-germany evolutions were cracked in 1940 by British Intelligence.
I'm sure the military encryption is truly safe for now, and probably will be for years to come, but it's better to be safe than sorry and to keep developing more secure systems all the time. With the right security you can minimise risk but never remove it, but why would a malicious individual or group spend years cracking a nuke's launch system when you could do just as much harm, much more easily, when they could bring down numerous planes at once by neutralise several airports' air traffic control systems?
FAA's Air-Traffic Networks Breached by Hackers: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124165272826193727.html
UK Airport's Air Traffic Control Data Stolen: http://www.channel4.com/news/air-traffic-control-data-for-sale-on-ebay
This.Biodeamon said:
It's getting silly - students at home seem to do their country's jobs a thousand times better.
even the basic GPS in our cell phones can encrypt the signal, its amazing that the drones didnt. If all they have to do to make this unusable is encrypt the signal (change frequency from a very popular one would also be a nice step) its not hard to countermeasure.
When I think of weaponised domestic UAVs, this is what i think of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2_xuzvza8c (I would embed it if I knew how)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2_xuzvza8c (I would embed it if I knew how)
Heh. When I first learned about ROVs being used by the military, my immediate mental image was of some little kid somewhere with a Tamiya RC rig taking control of one (maybe not even realizing he was doing it while flying his own plane). Scarily, sounds like I wasn't that far off the mark after all..
Technology gets stronger. But we got weaker. We built computers, robots, whole unmanned armies, and no one ever asked: what happens, when the enemy steals the keys?
