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I'd back up and say it might be even more simple from a cybersec perspective, holding off the military drone capabilities and related hardening. Embedded consu
by dogman144 5y ago
I'd back up and say it might be even more simple from a cybersec perspective, holding off the military drone capabilities and related hardening.
Embedded consumer electronics/IoT generally have awful security configs and an internet connection. Consumer-grade, and I bet a fair bit of the more high powered drones, are vulnerable to this same risk.
I'd love an educated opinion on this, but to the extent I've thought about this as well - many of these drones must be vuln to some form of remote code exploitation and shutdowns, if you can get a targeted signal to hit their admin "beacon" or w/e.
As consumer drones do show up in warfare a fair bit, this feels like a possible counter-drone route to explore.
- floxy 5y ago>People have already started committing crimes using quadcoptors I'm interesting to know what kinds of crimes people are commiting with quadcopters. Is it more of a spying/industrial espionage thing? Or stealing Amazon packages off of people's doorsteps? Arsonists?
- ivankolev 5y agoI've heard of cross-border drug trafficking: https://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/narcodrones-180974934/ https://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/narcodrones-1809749...
- dogman144 5y agoSorry, crimes is a too generic term! Counter-drone fight in Iraq/Syria includes consumer drones dropping what are basically grenades. Another recent example was a souped up quadcopter that scouted out a mil base in AZ and then outran a few LEO rotary wings recently. But, if it was that modified of a drone, it's possible other aspects of the connection/remote access were hardened as well.