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Tactical Cyber Rifle Is a Glimpse into the Future of Warfare
- platz 11y ago"This particular device, which took 10 hours to build and cost just about $150, uses a Raspberry Pi, Wi-Fi radio, and antenna to take advantage of a known exploit in Parrot quadcopters. The rifle shape, meanwhile, is mostly for kicks. ". This is the future of warfare?
- mc32 11y agoIsn't that the present (state) of cyber warfare (aside from the formfactor effects)?
- mc32 11y agoImagine if Amazon delivery drones took off --and someone had this along their path. I still don't know how Amazon plans to address rogue actors trying to rustle their drones for their freight.
- danielbarla 11y agoMost of these drone disabling and hijacking exploits we see involve disabling or overriding the original controller's signal. I am pretty sure Amazon delivery drones would be fully autonomous (like a Google car), meaning that these attacks wouldn't work on them. It's not like you couldn't swat them with a baseball bat, but that's a different question.
- spike021 11y agoIsn't this kind of issue not much different than if a UPS truck was stopped and its driver inside a building making a delivery? Someone can just break in and take a package.
- slavik81 11y agoI guess this is just for use against insurgents with off-the-shelf quadcopters? Parrot was likely not designing its quadcopters with air-tight security in mind. Civil UAVs are unlikely to be attacked and, worst comes to worst, losing the occasional quadcopter is just a cost of business. Military-grade UAVs, on the other hand, are going to be designed with an expectation that they'll be attacked by sophisticated opponents. Finding exploits would be tough, as the link would probably be encrypted and the design would be secret.