Students Hack Unmanned Drone

[Denamic]

Also, lol at the guys who came here trying to make a joke related to FOX news but found an actual okay story.

Didn't notice the fear mongering, did you?

 

[LordFish]

So much snip

Exploiting "vulnerabilities in the system" and some sort of DDOS does not equate to decrypting or cracking anything like AES 256, or even 128.

Yes if the system is designed with flaws than the encryption can be circumvented, but never encrypted data cracked

 

[LordFish]

That doesn't protect it. Iran already hacked US military drones and captured them for instance.

Link? All I found was "By putting noise [jamming] on the communications, you force the bird into autopilot. This is where the bird loses its brain."

 

[Woodsey]

Source: Fox News [http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/06/25/drones-vulnerable-to-terrorist-hijacking-researchers-say/]

Move along people, nothing to see here. I know that this actually happened, but it's only a matter of time until Bill O'Reilly gets his hands on it and any and all truth will be lost.

You say that now, but I've yet to see you explain the tides.

Also, lol at the guys who came here trying to make a joke related to FOX news but found an actual okay story.

FOX News mocked for fear-mongering. FOX News quotes a guy who almost says "9/11 times a thousand". I think we're good for the piss-take to go ahead.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

You know its seems that students are always finding out better ways to things than the people trained to them. Maybe we should start sending students to the front line. call it "hands on learning".

This.

It's getting silly - students at home seem to do their country's jobs a thousand times better.

 

[willsham45]

So some people worked out how to take control of an overly expensive, fancy RC plane well done.

 

[DiamanteGeeza]

Source: Fox News [http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/06/25/drones-vulnerable-to-terrorist-hijacking-researchers-say/]

Move along people, nothing to see here. I know that this actually happened, but it's only a matter of time until Bill O'Reilly gets his hands on it and any and all truth will be lost.

Heh. I was impressed that they went for "terrorists" in the headline though. No messing around in Fox Towers.

LOL! Only namby-pamby liberals show restraint with headlines... ;-)

 

[Skillswords]

Department of Homeland Security (DoHS) are interested in this spoofing development, with representatives from both agencies having reportedly invited the Austin team to repeat their trick under supervision.

... The next day China and north korea became barraged in they're own nukes...

 

[Strazdas]

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.

 

[Maniac2807]

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)

 

[Vulpis]

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..

 

[Black Arrow Officer]

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?

 

[Evil Smurf]

I'm a little disappointed to see the Escapist going along in American 'anything could be used for terrorism' paranoia.

that post could be used for terrorism. *stares at you*