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loose wheel

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15. It's unnecessary to hijack a drone

Reply to MindMover (Original post)

Mon Jul 2, 2012, 02:18 PM

Jul 2012

This is just one way of taking a drone out of commission.

Another is just to jam it's signals from base. They operate on a known frequency and a jammer is a cheap piece of equipment to build. Depending on their programming a drone that loses signal input from it's base may return to base or just crash.

Police Departments don't need these gadgets. Boots on the ground is what prevents crime. All the gadgets, red light cameras, speed cameras, and now these drones they want to use.......they turn law enforcement into revenue enhancement.

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On dare from government, researchers successfully hack flying drone [View all] MindMover Jul 2012 OP

Spoofing a GPS receiver is not the same as hacking a drone. TheWraith Jul 2012 #1

How does that "kool-ade" taste? nt Plucketeer Jul 2012 #3

Glad to see you admit to having no actual argument to rebut with, so you resort to insults. nt TheWraith Jul 2012 #4

Hmmm... Plucketeer Jul 2012 #5

News for you: The Pentagon didn't build the Ford Pinto or the Hubble Space Telescope. TheWraith Jul 2012 #7

"It's possible but so difficult as to be fairly pointless." boppers Jul 2012 #11

You're correct Plucketeer Jul 2012 #12

Actually it is, since gps is computer controlled nadinbrzezinski Jul 2012 #8

They aren't spoofing the GPS reciever. They're spoofing the GPS satellite signals. boppers Jul 2012 #9

Just a matter of time Plucketeer Jul 2012 #2

Of course and the reaction from TPTB will be, damn, our profits are under threat. n/t EFerrari Jul 2012 #6

We will need more and better drones woo me with science Jul 2012 #10

Spoofing and clocking have been doable for years ProgressiveProfessor Jul 2012 #13

You could fly it into a mountain that way, eh? nt bemildred Jul 2012 #14

It's unnecessary to hijack a drone loose wheel Jul 2012 #15

Didn't Iran do this to one of our military drones? ManiacJoe Jul 2012 #16