• University of Texas Students Hijack a U.S. Government Drone in Midair at behest of Homeland Security
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[QUOTE]The U.S. government, understandably, doesn't want its drone technology to fall out of the sky and into other peoples' laps. But being able to hijack a drone and control it? That's even worse. And a team of researchers has done it for 1,000 bucks. The University of Texas at Austin team successfully nabbed the drone on a dare from the Department of Homeland Security. They managed to do it through spoofing, a technique where a signal from hackers pretends to be the same as one sent to the drone's GPS. We've seen spoofing before; it was reportedly used to bring down the drone that crashed in Iran last year. As the researchers point out, we'll be seeing (or maybe not seeing) more and more drones in the skies as the technology becomes more widely used, so making this technique ineffective will be high on Homeland Security's priority list.[/quote] Source: [url]http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-06/researchers-hack-government-drone-1000-parts[/url]
The drone that was hacked. [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/06/30/article-2166796-13DBEA6E000005DC-167_468x299.jpg[/img] [img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/06/30/article-2166796-13DBEA6A000005DC-796_224x388.jpg[/img] [url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2166796/How-team-students-HIJACKED-drone-midair--1-000-bet-U-S-government.html?ito=feeds-newsxml]Daily mail[/url]
I wonder if that's how they'll explain someone taking over the drones and other things in Black Ops 2. 30ish years into the future and no one considers a defense against spoofing.
When I hear "drone" I think a multi million dollar Predator drone, not a glorified RC helicopter.
[QUOTE=OvB;36556922]When I hear "drone" I think a multi million dollar Predator drone, not a glorified RC helicopter.[/QUOTE] From what I understand, the principle is essentially the same in hijacking them.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;36556941]From what I understand, the principle is essentially the same in hijacking them.[/QUOTE] That seems like a bad thing
Today, hijacking drones. Tomorrow, they gain sentience.
[QUOTE=Doneeh;36557004]Today, hijacking drones. Tomorrow, they gain sentience.[/QUOTE] Who does? The students?
[QUOTE=Doneeh;36557004]Today, hijacking drones. Tomorrow, they gain sentience.[/QUOTE] The Day After Tomorrow[sp]Why could that movie have been about robots taking over the world[/sp], Skynet
I find it scary that the state is starting to use these at home. Bye bye privacy. The UK government are gonna eat this shit right up too Good on those guys hacking them though, fight the power [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Did not read the article." - Swebonny))[/highlight]
[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;36557082]Who does? The students?[/QUOTE] Yes the students, who else? Robots?
[QUOTE=JustExtreme;36557182]I find it scary that the state is starting to use these at home. Bye bye privacy. The UK government are gonna eat this shit right up too Good on those guys hacking them though, fight the power[/QUOTE] It was a test to see if they were hackable, you blithering dolt.
How the fuck do they spoof the signal withou knowing the software's architecture? Because then they would spoof only one imsteuction, resulting in briging it down yes, but not capturing it..
[QUOTE=RichyZ;36557646]so justextreme, have you ever made a good post?[/QUOTE] No, just extreme ones.
[QUOTE=JustExtreme;36557182]I find it scary that the state is starting to use these at home. Bye bye privacy. The UK government are gonna eat this shit right up too Good on those guys hacking them though, fight the power[/QUOTE] Great job reading the article at all. I thought this was bannable now.
[QUOTE=Killuah;36557429]How the fuck do they spoof the signal withou knowing the software's architecture? Because then they would spoof only one imsteuction, resulting in briging it down yes, but not capturing it..[/QUOTE] Not software. The GPS obviously has a protocol for broadcasting signals, this is what they spoofed. They sent GPS signals to the drone, stronger that the ones from a satellite, thus taking priority. From there, the spoofed signals redirect the drone to wherever the spoofer wants to. The solution is simply improving security on the positioning module of the drone by using some sort of verification or encoding for the received messages.
[QUOTE=JustExtreme;36557182]I find it scary that the state is starting to use these at home. Bye bye privacy. The UK government are gonna eat this shit right up too Good on those guys hacking them though, fight the power[/QUOTE] You know this post? [quote=Starpluck;29869864]Reading the thread New rule: If you don't read the article and you make a dumb post about something that was explicitly addressed in the OP, you get banned. Shining example: [url]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1150978?p=33939569&viewfull=1#post33939569[/url] If you can't read further than the title, this section is clearly not for you.[/quote] I think the example should be changed to link to your post.
Military fucking up, yay.
[QUOTE=Remscar;36558296]Military fucking up, yay.[/QUOTE] Testing for errors and weaknesses is a military fuck up? How?
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;36558307]Testing for errors and weaknesses is a military fuck up? How?[/QUOTE] They fucked up by not seeing this obvious flaw in the first place, like they didnt even see this as a possibility.
[QUOTE=A_Pigeon;36558371]They fucked up by not seeing this obvious flaw in the first place, like they didnt even see this as a possibility.[/QUOTE] Because the first version of everything is absolutely fool proof, perfect.
[QUOTE=Remscar;36558296]Military fucking up, yay.[/QUOTE] Great reading.
[QUOTE=OvB;36556922]When I hear "drone" I think a multi million dollar Predator drone, not a glorified RC helicopter.[/QUOTE] I'd kinda doubt they'd deploy a predator drone in a high density sector with a bunch of high standard universities and residences around.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;36558307]Testing for errors and weaknesses is a military fuck up? How?[/QUOTE]Honestly, they should actually be glad that they are trying to fix these things and working on testing them.
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