{"id":2354,"date":"2009-12-17T14:46:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T14:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/iraqi-militants-hack-4-5m-predator-drones-with-windows-shareware-war\/"},"modified":"2009-12-17T14:46:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T14:46:16","slug":"iraqi-militants-hack-4-5m-predator-drones-with-windows-shareware-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/iraqi-militants-hack-4-5m-predator-drones-with-windows-shareware-war.php","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi Militants Hack $4.5m Predator Drones With Windows Shareware [War]"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Today, in terrifying things about the world: Iraqi militants have been able to intercept video feeds from the Predator surveillance drones with a simple Windows app. To rephrase, an iconic symbol of our military superiority can be foiled for $26.<\/em><\/p>

The software, as far as I can tell, is a simple data-leeching utility. With a satellite dish and a few parameters (Packet IDs and transponder codes, which you can evidently scan<\/em> for) you can tap into downstream data feeds, and essentially recording whatever data is transmitted to (specific) other users on a satellite network. How the insurgents got the proper parameters for predator drone, I have no idea—but apparently it's not that hard. Says a senior defense official:<\/p>

There did appear to be a vulnerability. There's been no harm done to troops or missions compromised as a result of it, but there's an issue that we can take care of and we're doing so.<\/p><\/blockquote>

If twelve-year-olds can encrypt their torrent downloads, I think it's a reasonably fair expectation for the US military to be able to encrypt mission-critical data transmissions, the insecurity of which could kill people<\/em>. (Or, alternatively, the security of which ensures that that we<\/em> can kill people. Someone's got to die, right? Right? Right.)<\/p>

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Also worrying: reports that the new Battleship<\/em> iPhone app<\/a> has, due to a small programming error, destroyed most of the Navy's pacific fleet.<\/p>

At the time of posting, SkyGrabber's website<\/a> is down. [WSJ<\/a>]<\/p>

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