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Predator Drone 'Virus' Could Be Military's Own Monitoring
jjp9999 writes "The virus that hit Predator and Reaper UAVs could be an internal monitoring system employed by the military. According to security researcher Miles Fidelman, there are vendors that sell security monitoring packages to the Defense Department which are 'essentially rootkits that do, among other things, key logging.' The virus is a keylogger that was found at pilot stations, and could be keeping tabs on keystrokes used by pilots to control the UAVs, found Wired's Danger Room blog. Fidelman adds, 'I kind of wonder if the virus that folks are fighting is something that some other part of DoD deployed intentionally.'"
must be a sony drone. oooh burrrn on sony!
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When do you plan to set drones loose on Washington?
Well, they found my key logger, so that plan is on the back burner for the time being...
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When do you plan to set drones loose on Washington?
That is the other one, the creditor drone.
I would think that if you have people whose job it is to push keys, the results of those key pushes being missiles firing and possibly killing other humans, one would insist on logging those key strokes:
Officer: "The drone you're operating just launched a missile into a school yard and killed 30 children! What did you do?"
Drone operator: "I dunno. I was pushing some keys and, well, it just kinda happened."
Officer: "Which keys did you push?"
Drone operator: "I'm not sure. I was kinda distracted eating a donut. You know how it is when you're eating a donut: you really want to focus in on it."
Officer: "Hmmm. OK. Back to work. Got any more of those donuts?"