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U.S. Drones Hacked With Cheap Software

Post December 17th, 2009, 12:13 pm
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WASHINGTON -- Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations...

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Next they're gonna hack the controllability and have the drones crash at base! FAIL!
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Post December 17th, 2009, 1:20 pm

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bet there drones are still useing windows 98
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Post December 17th, 2009, 2:58 pm
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At least it isn't Windows ME [lol] Windows 98 is 100 times better than Windows ME!
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FAIL! I hope they stop flying these things armed until they've fixed the security.

Post December 17th, 2009, 4:43 pm
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The video signal isn't encrypted, But I bet you the control system signal is. If not we need to get a refund.
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absolute idiots...
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