A lot of drone autopilots will use commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) chips and software. Imagine an exploit for a common example program or for a library in a co

A lot of drone autopilots will use commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) chips and software. Imagine an exploit for a common example program or for a library in a common development environment. A state actor could build a database of ways to profile and exploit those chips and software. Imagine hacking a drone and ordering it to return to home and drop its payload there. We may see firewalls on drones soon, or watchdog timers that trigger a second microcontroller to take iver when the primary is hacked. Metasploit already supports software defined radios (SDRs.)