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talkpoliticsIt seems that someone has hacked the Air Force's Predator Drone fleet.
The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source. But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech’s computers, network security specialists say. And the infection underscores the ongoing security risks in what has become the U.S. military’s most important weapons system.
“We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back,” says a source familiar with the network infection, one of three that told Danger Room about the virus. “We think it’s benign. But we just don’t know.”
The PR dept says this is nothing but any hacker with half a brain whould be able to figure out pitch/roll/yaw/firezemissiles given enough time and data. Someday someone will manage to successfully hack a drone in flight, and either crash it or turn it against its owners. Won’t that be a fun day.
In a way it was bound to happen.
The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source. But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech’s computers, network security specialists say. And the infection underscores the ongoing security risks in what has become the U.S. military’s most important weapons system.
“We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back,” says a source familiar with the network infection, one of three that told Danger Room about the virus. “We think it’s benign. But we just don’t know.”
The PR dept says this is nothing but any hacker with half a brain whould be able to figure out pitch/roll/yaw/firezemissiles given enough time and data. Someday someone will manage to successfully hack a drone in flight, and either crash it or turn it against its owners. Won’t that be a fun day.
In a way it was bound to happen.
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Date: 10/10/11 11:30 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/10/11 13:01 (UTC)Yeah, someday a lot of things will manage to happen. What people and especially alarmists fail to realize is that all these hacks have been accessing information, not inserting it.
The ability to hack into a computer system has required that code be inserted through the intervention of an operator. This is invariably done inadvertently through an unauthorized website or program by a user of the system.
Hacking into an operating system and hacking into a user-written program are two entirely different things. Chances are, capturing a drone and reverse engineering it is a more likely scenario.
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Date: 10/10/11 20:58 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 11/10/11 02:23 (UTC)When I say code, I mean computer instructions. Not encoded data.
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Date: 11/10/11 08:32 (UTC)but if you know the code you've alread bypassed the "hard part", implanting appropriatly formated instructions is childishly easy in comparison.
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Date: 10/10/11 13:34 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/10/11 13:45 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/10/11 13:54 (UTC)What's next? O.o
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Date: 11/10/11 08:34 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/10/11 15:06 (UTC)When the US uses drones....
Date: 10/10/11 15:54 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/10/11 16:45 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/10/11 17:55 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 11/10/11 02:26 (UTC)I'll see your bet and raise you on China.
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Date: 11/10/11 06:21 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 10/10/11 19:16 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 11/10/11 15:10 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 11/10/11 06:14 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 11/10/11 15:13 (UTC)This reminds me...
Date: 12/10/11 17:46 (UTC)Forgive me if you have heard this story before.
Re: This reminds me...
Date: 13/10/11 08:07 (UTC)The tech would have been the guy who's job it was to impliment those very protocols and it's not like he's going to turn himself in is it?
Re: This reminds me...
Date: 13/10/11 16:00 (UTC)Re: This reminds me...
Date: 14/10/11 02:25 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 12/10/11 17:59 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 12/10/11 22:52 (UTC)I for one welcome our new robot overlords, and remind them that I could be helpful in getting others to toil in their underground silicon mines.