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AnonSec Attempts To Crash $222m Drone, Releases Secret Flight Videos (ibtimes.co.uk)
An anonymous reader writes with an excerpt from IBTimes that says it's not just governments that have proven themselves capable of hacking into drones: Hackers from the AnonSec group who spent several months hacking NASA have released a huge data dump and revealed they tried to bring down a $222m Global Hawk drone into the Pacific Ocean. The hack included employee personal details, flight logs and video footage collected from unmanned and manned aircraft. The 250GB data dump contained the names, email addresses and phone numbers of 2,414 NASA employees, 2,143 flight logs and 631 videos taken from Nasa aircraft and radar feeds, as well as a self-published paper (known as a 'zine') from the group explaining the extensive technical vulnerabilities that the hackers were able to breach.
Among these: the group discovered that the flight paths uploaded into each drone could be replaced with their own.
I call Anonsec criminals but really they're terrorists. There's no legitimate reason for their actions. None. Let's stop calling them hackers and start calling them terrorists. That is what they are. They need to be stopped. They're a bunch of immature losers living in their parents' basements. The best solution is for law enforcement to infiltrate their groups and arrest the Anonsec terrorists and anyone in related groups. They should all be executed for their crimes. Normally I don't agree with the death penalty, but it's appropriate for these lowlife scumbags.
Only in America does a drone cost $222M.