On dare from government, researchers successfully hack flying drone

[TheWraith]

7. News for you: The Pentagon didn't build the Ford Pinto or the Hubble Space Telescope.

And given the fact that I've clearly forgotten more about technology than you care to learn, you might want to do a little research into the concepts of on the fly encryption, secure key encryption, and the inner workings of the NAVSTAR global positioning system.

This "test" is the equivalent of switching around street signs then claiming that you remotely took control of the brain of a driver who followed them. It's little more than a publicity stunt, and GPS spoofing is something that's very well known in the tech field. It's also something which is fundamentally not very useful, since it requires incredibly precise knowledge of where the target is, painfully slow adjustments to the signal, and even then it's useless against military encrypted GPS transmissions. That's why there is no known examples of the malicious use of GPS spoofing. It's possible but so difficult as to be fairly pointless.