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Iran brings down American drone by hacking
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Iran brings down American drone by hacking
December 8, 2011 at 4:01 pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16098250

Quote:Iranian TV has broadcast footage of an advanced US drone aircraft that Tehran says it brought down using electronic methods to override its controls.

The BBC's James Reynolds watched the footage and said the fact that the drone appeared undamaged provided some evidence to support Tehran's version of events.




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RE: Iran bring down American drone by hacking
December 8, 2011 at 4:14 pm
(December 4, 2011 at 9:41 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: Al Jezzera is reporting that Iran was able to interrupt/take control and cause a crash landing with only minimal damage to the drone.

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RE: Iran bring down American drone by hacking
December 8, 2011 at 4:17 pm
Yeh right. Iran's technological might vs the Islamic republic of USA, yeh, pull the other one.
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RE: Iran bring down American drone by hacking
December 8, 2011 at 4:32 pm
(December 8, 2011 at 4:17 pm)5thHorseman Wrote: Yeh right. Iran's technological might vs the Islamic republic of USA, yeh, pull the other one.

I don’t know why anyone would be surprised by this or seriously doubt that it could happen. There were reports on the news a few years back that someone over there was trying to hack into the command and telemetry links of our UAVs. Combine that with the availability of information like this on the web, and I’d say it was inevitable.

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RE: Iran bring down American drone by hacking
December 8, 2011 at 4:50 pm
One might hope the military would use unique encryption schemes and provision for the drone to detect if it was being hacked, not hard to do, and utterly unbreakable with a one-time pad encryption scheme.
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RE: Iran brings down American drone by hacking
December 14, 2011 at 8:41 pm
These drones are designed to self destruct on the slightest security violation.

To think that this was brought down intact states that our military-industrial complex is grossly overpaid and inept if they can't secure their own damn drone when they already knew that there was an active hacking risk.
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RE: Iran brings down American drone by hacking
December 14, 2011 at 8:54 pm
(December 14, 2011 at 8:41 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote: These drones are designed to self destruct on the slightest security violation.

To think that this was brought down intact states that our military-industrial complex is grossly overpaid and inept if they can't secure their own damn drone when they already knew that there was an active hacking risk.

That or they didnt care..or worse, they let it happen
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