12-17-2009, 04:02 PM
The drone intercepts mark the emergence of a shadow cyber war within the U.S.-led conflicts overseas.
Hysterical.
We handed it to them on an open channel.
When a kid hears airplane radios through his $5 walkie talkie, we don't call him a "dark airplane espionage agent."
The U.S. government has known about the flaw since the U.S. campaign in Bosnia in the 1990s, current and former officials said. But the Pentagon assumed local adversaries wouldn't know how to exploit it, the officials said.
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Fixing the security gap would have caused delays, according to current and former military officials. It would have added to the Predator's price.
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Today, the Air Force is buying hundreds of Reaper drones, a newer model, whose video feeds could be intercepted in much the same way as with the Predators, according to people familiar with the matter. A Reaper costs between $10 million and $12 million each...
Stupid jackasses. They're paying $12 million a pop and they don't think they have the negotiating-leverage to ask for a cheap RSA IC chip.