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This page 2 comment is making me not believe what I am reading. Data stream is not encrypted? Can anyone confirm? The US military has reportedly been aware of
by SriniK 15y ago
This page 2 comment is making me not believe what I am reading. Data stream is not encrypted? Can anyone confirm?
The US military has reportedly been aware of vulnerabilities with pirating unencrypted drone data streams since the Bosnia campaign in the mid-1990s.
Top US officials said in 2009 that they were working to encrypt all drone data streams in Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan – after finding militant laptops loaded with days' worth of data in Iraq – and acknowledged that they were "subject to listening and exploitation."
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- kristofferR 15y agohttp://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/12/predator-drones-use-less-encryption-than-your-tv.ars http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/12/predator-dro...
- SriniK 15y agoThanks for the link. Wow, I am surprised they didn't fix it so far.
- tantalor 15y agoI thought that the "unencrypted data streams" was video channel, not the control channel. Is that not true?
- randomtyler 15y agoYou are correct. As far as we know, the "unencrypted data" was just video, NOT control codes.