People, this is so much bigger an issue than anyone is giving it credit for. This is huge. Without exception every American three letter agency, and others, a

People, this is so much bigger an issue than anyone is giving it credit for. This is huge. Without exception every American three letter agency, and others, are completely dropping the ball by not giving this faaaaaaaaaaar more weight than anyone is giving it. Literally there is this tiny little wall, it looks like this >< and it's like 0.5 mm wide, and the only thing separating one side from the other (safety versus a complete disaster) is the fact that it takes some intelligence to play with drones and terrorists are by definition dumb (since it means they have not even understood enlightenment philosophy, that you can disagree with someone but defend to the death their right to say or believe differently from you - a 250-300 year old advancement in civilization.) That's it. This is not a wall that you can count on remaining up, as drones become turnkey easy to use automated solutions. Agencies need to act on this now because they will not be able to put the genie back in the bottle. This is really, really serious. EDIT: I've been downvoted, but I don't think drone software has any backdoors, safeguards, or even registration requirements, and I don't think drone manufacturers even vaguely consider that they might be making what could be part of munitions, or give a second thought to completing an order to a war zone or to anyone, except of course unless there is some kind of general embargo or difficulty (that applies to every class of products.) I think it's being left too free, to be honest, and the possibilities that will unfold naturally are not going to be well. I strongly advise agencies to put in the necessary legal and technical safeguards today, not when it is too late. Other posters point out that this stuff might apply "just as well" to model airplanes -- but I personally don't think this is true at all. A model airplane won't fly to a specific user-supplied location unattended. it's a different beast entirely and it's not being handled with enough seriousness, in my personal opinion. I don't know that much about drones though. (Just flew a small cheap model helicopter toy, like a $20 one. I'm basing this based on general reading.) I stand by my comment.