What if a drone gps is hacked?

[sailingaway]

Venus Throw ‏@OneVenusThrow
Fear of #drone #GPS hacking raised by Congress as #FAA deadline looms http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/fear-of-drone-gps-hacking-raised-by-congress-as-faa-deadline-looms/ #Technology #Privacy #Security #NoDrones

[Anti Federalist]

Very easily crashed, if you can mimic the incoming data stream, but my understanding is that military grade GPS signals are encrypted.

Jamming would be more effective than "hacking", if I were even considering such a thing, which, of course I am not.

~~~God Bless Americaaaaaa~~~

[sailingaway]

well, at least someone in congress is asking SOME questions.

[kmalm585]

Sounds like the plot to the new Call of Duty game. Some terrorist in the future hacks the military drones and attacks the US, lol.

[malkusm]

Apparently you just have to fight fearmongering with more fearmongering, to get through to these idiots.

[hazek]

Hasn't this already been done?


When the U.S. Department of Homeland Security dared a Texas university research group to bring down a flying drone, the team accepted the challenge and did just that.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/29/drone-hacked-by-universit_n_1638100.html