Man detained outside White House for trying to fly drone

CNN ^ | May 14, 2015 | Kristen Holmes

[McGruff]

Secret Service detained a man Thursday afternoon who eyewitnesses tell CNN was trying to fly some sort of remote-controlled aerial device over the White House fence.

The park on the north side of the White House has been placed on lockdown while the incident is being investigated.

[McGruff]

It's the second drone incident at the White House this year...

[pieceofthepuzzle]

Isn’t there a way to jam the remote signals for these?

[Blood of Tyrants]

If you know the frequency they operate on, yes. But since they are usually on a public band, jamming them is not an option. I don’t even think it’s legal.

[Theoria]

Drone companies are creating GPS fail-safes that won't allow drones to go over restricted areas.

But, like everything, it can be hacked. But, I also have never heard of a RC operator using his hobby equipment to fly around the WH.

[Covenantor]

Probably, but like the guard dogs they have to be unleashed. Or get Val-jay’s approval after she considers benefits of WH staff martyrdom or not.

[ColdOne]

Obama isn’t at WH today. Camp David.

[GeronL]

It’s probably legal to just jam them around the White House and Capitol I would think.

[Smedley]

Actually, yes. No way of reliably taking over control (assuming the latest of RC control tech), but the frequencies of standard RC equipment are well-known, can be monitored, and can be jammed.

[MeshugeMikey]

he and the "little" "lady" are there strategizing......for the third onama term...

[longtermmemmory]

she would run to make money for herself. She does not care about winning, she wants another “no show” job.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[Blood of Tyrants]

Like I said, you have to know what frequency they are operating on. Jamming all possible frequency ranges would not be politically possible.

[MeshugeMikey]

the democrack party would have to be very VERY desperate to allow mooch to run anywhere,

[jsanders2001]

> If you know the frequency they operate on, yes. But since they are usually on a public band, jamming them is not an option. I don’t even think it’s legal.

Since when would that stop the current administration. There are no laws that apply to them ya know...

[ColdOne]

LOL...no it is the famous Gulf Summit. Meanwhile in England the king of SA is with Queen to see some horses.

[bert]

I think it was the King of Bahrain that is with the queen

[JRandomFreeper]

Technically, it is unlawful for ANY agency to jam anything. Anywhere.

Do they? Of course. But it isn't legal.

/johnny

[Covenantor]

ROTFL

well done.

[ColdOne]

Thanks for info.

[b4its2late]

The drone operator has to have a screw loose to do that after seeing what happened to the last nut that flew the gyrocopter onto the capitol grounds....