If the Air Force is putting it's eggs into this basket it had better find a way to solve this problem.
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Insurgents hack U.S. drones with $26 OTS software
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I wonder how they determined the video on insurgents' computers had been intercepted on the downlink, unless they already knew about this vulnerability. (EDIT: They did. Since Bosnia in 1995. WTF?) Seems like they must be different clips than the stuff on YouTube.
Well, the un-encrypted Reaper costs $10M to 12M each- so how much for the upgraded version WITH encryption?
Wasn't there someone here that said the AF is like the DMV- only with guns? I suppose that's not fair. In this day/age of budgetary constraints I could see the Navy negotiating on a product with similar features.
Wasn't there someone here that said the AF is like the DMV- only with guns? I suppose that's not fair. In this day/age of budgetary constraints I could see the Navy negotiating on a product with similar features.
When I saw the title, I thought maybe they were raising the greens fees.
Just saw this on FoxNews. It seems that we're moving towards getting a little too reliant on high-speed technology. Proves the fact that we need to get back to basics - eyeballs actually in the cockpit with cheap, reliable, robust and mechanically redundant aircraft...enter...the mighty Turbo-Weenie :smile_pur
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UAV's were supposed to be cheap and expendable, some are. However it's going to get to the point where we can not afford to lose a UAV with all the equiptment that we need to put in them. I just don't like the idea of putting a bunch of link systems into a aircraft that we can just "lose contact" with.
Would be an easy way to spread disinformation. Make the enemy think he's seeing what is being monitored and then observe his movements.
Good point, however I am always up for complaining and sh!tting on UAV's whenever I get a chance.
The short story is they weren't "hacked" - it was a broadcast-in-the-clear signal. The long story is where COTS and rapid deployment of systems (dunno if predator was spiral development or not, but I'm guessing they'll use a bolt-on crypto module too) are taking new weapons systems.
This seems like an awfully marginal / weird way to go about that, though??
Good point, however I am always up for complaining and sh!tting on UAV's whenever I get a chance.
Why would you say that? Job insecurity aside, they're an invaluable tool in the GWOT.
Brett