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Not awfully surprising. It's a toy, not a Predator. Security likely was not a major design concern, and I don't really blame them. Probably even intentional to
by ConstantineXVI 14y ago
Not awfully surprising. It's a toy, not a Predator. Security likely was not a major design concern, and I don't really blame them. Probably even intentional to a degree, to make (owner-sourced) hacking easier.
- jlgreco 14y agoYeah. You can probably think of it basically like the wireless equivalent of a Roomba's SCI port.
- 0x0 14y agoNot complaining, just slightly surprised. I thought you'd have to go to an extra effort to remove the username+password prompt from the standard telnetds :)
- zb 14y agoRandom factoid: the prompt actually comes from getty, not telnetd.
- bigiain 14y agoYou know the Predators were (and possibly still are) transmitting all their video without any encryption?[1] And they've also suffered virus infection on their ground-station computers?[2] I don't know whats running on the actual drones, but it wouldn't surprise me at all to find there's well known exploits against something like QNX or VxWorks (or, and I shudder at this thought, Windows CE) that the drones are vulnerable to whilst in-flight… [1]http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/12/predator-drones-use-less-encryption-than-your-tv/ http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/12/predator-drones-u... [2] http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/10/10/malware-compromises-usaf-predator-drone-computer-systems/ http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/10/10/malware-compromis...