Insurgents Hacked Predator Drone Feeds

[scannerboy02]

Iraqi insurgents hacked Predator drone feeds, U.S. official indicates - CNN.com

Washington (CNN) -- Insurgents were able to use a mass-market software program to view live feeds from U.S. military Predator drones monitoring targets in Iraq, a U.S. official indicated to CNN Thursday.
The breach by Iranian-backed Shiite militants was discovered late last year, according to U.S. military and defense officials.
The story was first reported in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.

 

[DPD1]

This is mainly an issue with available satellite bandwidth. The development of devices that depend on bandwidth have rapidly outgrown the availability of it. But this will continue to be a problem from here on out. Because as long as there's a signal, there's going to be someone trying to hack it.

 

[WayneH]

We've already got to other threads on the topic going so I have to close this before it gets moving.

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