I can only speculate but there is some prior work in this area, for instance SkyJack (http://samy.pl/skyjack/ http://samy.pl/skyjack/). Quote: SkyJack (availab

I can only speculate but there is some prior work in this area, for instance SkyJack (http://samy.pl/skyjack/ http://samy.pl/skyjack/). Quote: SkyJack (available from github) is primarily a perl application which runs off of a Linux machine, runs aircrack-ng in order to get its wifi card into monitor mode, detects all wireless networks and clients around, deactivates any clients connected to Parrot AR.drones, connects to the now free Parrot AR.Drone as its owner, then uses node.js with node-ar-drone to control zombie drones. There is also some info/links regarding DJI's Phantom line of drones on https://github.com/noahwilliamsson/dji-phantom-vision https://github.com/noahwilliamsson/dji-phantom-vision Quote: The Range Extender is essentially a small Linux system based on OpenWRT which provides a WiFi-network used by the Phantom and the DJI Vision App. It's reachable over SSH at 192.168.1.2 (root / 19881209). The WiFi-network has no security by default and neither the Phantom nor the DJI Vision app supports password protecting it. Additionally, it is required that the network name is prefixed with "Phantom_" in order for the Phantom to find and associate with it.