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. Senior defense and intelligence officials said Iranian-backed insurgents intercepted the video feeds by taking advantage of an unprotected communications link in some of the remotely flown planes' systems. Shiite fighters in Iraq used software programs such as SkyGrabber -- available for as little as $25.95 on the Internet -- to regularly capture drone video feeds, according to a person familiar with reports on the matter.
232 posts and he already knows what the fuck is going on.Yes the search function does work now...
Yes the search function does work now...
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.
/facepalmThe 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.
Someone needs to be fucking fired.
so um what's the reason for the news publishing this info? obviously they got authorization so who benefits from this leak?
And this is the same government people want in charge of their health care.
If it weren't for the fact that US Soldiers may have died because of this... I'd be LMAO.
The Pentagon is in charge of health care?
I thought they only dealt with providing long-range non-elective cosmetic surgery to the uninsured.
A Colorado physicist admitted Tuesday he and University of Tennessee professor emeritus J. Reece Roth gave a Chinese graduate research assistant access to sensitive military arms information and lied about it.
According to the information unsealed Tuesday by U.S. District Magistrate Judge Bruce Guyton, the U.S. Air Force in May 2004 awarded AGT a military contract to research and develop "specific plasma actuator aerodynamic technology for use on an unmanned air vehicle that would function as a munitions system."
In April 2005, Roth and Sherman worked together to win another contract with the Air Force to continue its drone technology work.
The information alleges Roth lied about the employ of Dai, claiming only U.S. citizens were involved in the project.
his plea agreement states Roth told him about the act's requirement, and Theodore said Sherman "should have known" supplying Dai with access to information about the inner workings of military drones violated the law.
He headed up the UT Plasma Science Laboratory, in which postgraduate students including Sherman, Chinese foreign national Xin Dai and Iranian foreign national Sirous Nourgostar worked.
"unencrypted downlink"
/double facepalm
For gods sake, I use $18 wireless modules at work, and they even have integrated support for 128-bit AES encryption.
I couldn't believe it either. Our data is way less critical and we require all communication to the network be encrypted