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  • Iran may have captured U.S. stealth drone by hacking its GPS

    12/17/2011 6:33:01 PM PST · by upchuck · 20 replies
    Tecca ^ | December 16, 2011 | Mariella Moon
    The CIA and the U.S. military may have a serious security flaw to deal with if an Iranian engineer's story proves to be true. Speaking to Christian Science Monitor (CSM), he detailed how a team of specialists from his country hacked into a U.S. spy drone's GPS navigator in order to capture it. That's the same one the U.S. government claimed has landed in Iran's territory in early December due to a malfunction. The Iranian specialists reportedly figured out that the RQ-170 Sentinel's weakest point is its GPS by examining previously downed American drones back in September. Using this...