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I wonder to what extent either side is worried about the firmware on the drones. Somehow getting tampered-with firmware onto the drones that your enemy is using
by frou_dh 1y ago
I wonder to what extent either side is worried about the firmware on the drones. Somehow getting tampered-with firmware onto the drones that your enemy is using seems like it would be valuable.
- benterix 1y agoVery interesting but risky (easy to discover and renders the whole operation ineffective). So I believe what they did was heavy-handed but the most reasonable.
- trebligdivad 1y agoYeh, it would seem in some ways more useful than shutting down the factory; if you gently made all the drones do something, like let them be remote controlled, or bomb the place they were launched from.
- fennecbutt 1y agoBut once that happened a handful of times it would be corrected. I suppose it could be used sparingly but Ukraine would have no way of knowing when to use it. Perhaps a Bluetooth or whatever else the drone has on board "keep away" beacon for vips.
- jncfhnb 1y agoYou say that, but Israel booby trapped the Hezbollah comm devices _twice_ with physical explosives.
- Faark 1y agoThere are tones of non-obvious options. Eg make it appear like being shoot-downs. With a bunch of RNG / logic to make it non-obvious... random percentage, only when getting close to target, so many ways... The real enemy is QA. Don't want it misbehaving during a virtual test flight.
- morkalork 1y agoOne funny tick that's supposedly appeared is installing viruses on the SD cards used in drones so if/when a drone is downed intact and picked up by a curious enemy, their computer is infected.
- jacquesm 1y agoDrones are typically flashed minutes before the mission.