--- On Thu, 12/17/09, Paul Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote:

> U.S. officials say there is no evidence that militants were
> able to take control of the drones or otherwise interfere with their
> flights. 

While the opposition on the ground is not known to have achieved it, in lab 
settings allied researchers have hijacked the communications stream to hack the 
backend, opening up at least to some extent Pandora's box.  Since these systems 
are based on old technology it is not as simple as bolting on some COTS crypto 
to shield the traffic.

-chris


      
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