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SkyGrabber, a $26 piece of software made by a Russian company, was used by insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan to grab video feeds from $10 million UAVs last year. They could watch us watching them.

The vulnerability was apparently that the satellite uplink was wholly unencrypted. Hopefully the downlink was — one of the compromised UAVs carries remote-launchable Hellfire missiles.

Written by Jack

December 17th, 2009 at 5:25 pm

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