Cheap software helps destroy US drones

[Tomo3000]

Iraqi militants have regularly used cheap and widely-available software to intercept the feeds of US-operated drones, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

Cheap software helps destroy US drones

 

[Creag]

Interesting ... but why am I not surprised. Just takes a little ingenuity sometimes, and not always trillions of dollars

 

[Leostar]

I guess all radio control experts can do that with a radio. Also should be possible to block radio signals to the drone?

 

[oober]

"The US government has known about the flaw since the 1990s, but assumed its adversaries would not be able to take advantage of it, the Journal said."

But the flippen signal is unencrypted! No wonder...Americans assuming no one else will know how to view an unencrypted feed. Oi

 

[Carbon_Fibre]

roflmao

 

[kayvee]

"It was developed to intercept music, photos, video, programs and other content that other users download from the Internet – no military data or other commercial data, only free legal content," Andrew Solonikov told the Journal.

Now there's a chuckle.....

 

[bdt]

" 'security' by obscurity" .. sooner or later it chomps you in the nether regions! Meanwhile, watch for the ..ahh.. 'flood' of interest in SkyGrabber!

 

[Tpex]

LOL, the same thing I say about wifi theft, Its their fault for leaving it unencrypted, Funny how this was made by a russian company tho....

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Is it possible to snaffle a drone and use it for patrolling your suburb after hours?

One would expect that, since it's military-related, that it would be protected by encryption and the such...

 

[Tpex]

somebody should try the ones that the US flies around their embassy I think

 

[Guest 20221009]

The title is kinda misleading...they only intercepted the video feeds, its not like they were able to take control and crash the drone..or something like that.

 

[kayvee]

Yeah it's only downlink data that can be intercepted.

 

[Sting]

Is it possible to snaffle a drone and use it for patrolling your suburb after hours?

One would expect that, since it's military-related, that it would be protected by encryption and the such...

Unmanned Neighbourhood Watch with video feed for court evidence ?!!

 

[Slyfox]

The title is kinda misleading...they only intercepted the video feeds, its not like they were able to take control and crash the drone..or something like that.

It's more than misleading, it's just flat-out wrong. Honestly, this site has one of the worst signal-to-noise ratios in terms of news content that I've ever seen.

 

[risingtide]

How does that translate into soldier's lives lost or insurgent's lives saved? This seems negligent at best.