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US UAVS Intercepted
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 3:54 pm
by sirwilliam
ARTICLE LINKY
Not good. Not good at all. WTF, US?!!!! Next we'll give it a brain and let it do it's own thinking/driving.
Oh, and you gotta love this quote
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"The potential drone vulnerability lies in an unencrypted downlink between the unmanned craft and ground control. The U.S. government has known about the flaw since the U.S. campaign in Bosnia in the 1990s, current and former officials said. But the Pentagon assumed local adversaries wouldn't know how to exploit it, the officials said."
Re: US UAVS Intercepted
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 4:40 pm
by Mr Kleen
WSJ wrote:Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones
$26 Software Is Used to Breach Key Weapons in Iraq; Iranian Backing Suspected
listening to unencrypted traffic isn't
hacking.
Re: US UAVS Intercepted
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 4:53 pm
by sirwilliam
Mr Kleen wrote:WSJ wrote:Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones
$26 Software Is Used to Breach Key Weapons in Iraq; Iranian Backing Suspected
listening to unencrypted traffic isn't
hacking.
Yup, that is why I put intercepted.
Re: US UAVS Intercepted
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 8:14 pm
by Mr Kleen
and that's why I quoted WSJ.
I can almost (
almost) understand having unencrypted video on the original Predator. but on the "state of the art" 12 million a copy Reaper? you have to be fucking kidding me.
Re: US UAVS Intercepted
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 10:18 pm
by Sabre
Agreed, pretty lame!
Re: US UAVS Intercepted
Posted: Thu Dec 17, 2009 11:19 pm
by schvin
WTF!! seriously!!
Re: US UAVS Intercepted
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 10:27 am
by complacent
lamez. seriously.
Re: US UAVS Intercepted
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 4:37 pm
by scheherazade
Edit : nevermind, I was thinking of a different downlink.
Theirs was the IP video data. I thought it was the typical uhv/vhf weapon camera video.
Makes the case for human piloted flight
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-scheherazade
Re: US UAVS Intercepted
Posted: Fri Dec 18, 2009 6:55 pm
by Mr Kleen
Not Just Drones: Militants Can Snoop on Most U.S. Warplanes
Tapping into drones’ video feeds was just the start. The U.S. military’s primary system for bringing overhead surveillance down to soldiers and Marines on the ground is also vulnerable to electronic interception, multiple military sources tell Danger Room. That means militants have the ability to see through the eyes of all kinds of combat aircraft — from traditional fighters and bombers to unmanned spy planes. The problem is in the process of being addressed. But for now, an enormous security breach is even larger than previously thought.