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DARPA Unveils Hack-Resistant Drone

Posted by timothy on from the nothing's-perfect dept.

savuporo (658486) writes with news based on the work of a DARPA project known as High Assurance Cyber Military Systems: "'The Pentagon's research arm unveiled a new drone built with secure software that "prevents the control and navigation of the aircraft from being hacked. ... The software is designed to make sure a hacker cannot take over control of a UAS. The software is mathematically proven to be invulnerable to large classes of attack,' [HACMS program manager Kathleen] Fisher said." This is currently being demoed on a quad-copter platform. It would be interesting to know the CPU architecture, chipset, programming language and the suite of communication protol this thing uses ."

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  1. How long by vikingpower · · Score: 4, Insightful

    before someone takes over one of these babies ? I mean - for a challenge, this is about the same thing as waving a kilogram of prime steak in front of a pride of lions...

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  2. This is just silly by craigminah · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No kidding. I wouldn't even say "he hasn't missed a field goal in 43 attempts, this is a chip shot" because you'll put a rook on it and fail somehow. Heck, the US Government can't even put up a fricking (healthcare) website so how can they expect to succeed at making a "hacker proof drone"? 'Mathematically-proven" is like using the word "clinical" in front of a toothpaste...means nothing other than to hype a product...

  3. Re:"mathematically proven" by arglebargle_xiv · · Score: 4, Funny

    Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it -- Donald Knuth

  4. Re:"mathematically proven" by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's a misquote, like "Play it again, Sam."

    "Note that I have not tested this code, I have merely proven it correct."
    --Donald Knuth

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  5. Re:Frosty piss by The+Snowman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There ain't no such thing as 'hacker-resistant'.

    Yep, I especially loved this gem from the summary:

    The software is mathematically proven to be invulnerable to large classes of attack

    Anyone who knows anything about software and crypto knows you cannot make the software "invulnerable" to attacks. You can greatly decrease the number of bugs and known attack vectors. You can make it infeasible to brute-force your system using a realistic amount of computing power. But you do not know what you do now know, and the system cannot be 100% secure.

    I would love to see how they "mathematically proved" it is 100% secure (invulnerable, remember).

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