[6SJ7]

Who will watch the watchers?

[TADSLOS]

Must have taken their cue from the Iranians.

[Candor7]

America needs a spoof device freely available at Radio Shack, to ensure that the Federal Government leaves the privacy of THE PEOPLE intact.

Drones should only be used in war abroad, outside the USA.

[papertyger]

This is the best news I’ve heard all week.

[Eye of Unk]

And hackers will hijack the IRS penalty collection from Americans and will redistribute the funds to worthwhile charities.

They still think they are superior, they still think they can govern America like a third world country.

Guess what baby, you just kicked over the alarm clock and woke up the baby, and that kids pretty darn smart.

You won’t see this in Britain, Australia, Italy or even China.

But it WILL happen in America.

may all their drones fall from the sky or be flown back into their faces.

[KC Burke]

Fyi

[ZULU]

It would be nice if this caught on and more hackers started seizing and destroying ANY “drones” used for random surveillance of American citizens by the NAZIs in Homeland Security.

Muchas Gracias Jorge El Segundo!!!!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I am not sure that you could, even in principle, “hijack” a drone by spoofing GPS. You could confuse it, yes. Military GPS have antispoofing and antijam capabilities and I doubt that you could spoof them for anything like a thousand bucks. A truly robust navigation system would have inertial navigation as a fall back, and could either continue its mission or RTB when faced with interruption of the GPS signal.

[plangent]

Don’t you just love it when the Gubmint experts think they have perfected a plan, only to have a bunch of outsiders show them up?

And for cheap, too!

[Right Wing Assault]

Another version of the story:

http://rt.com/usa/news/texas-1000-us-government-906/

At the end of the story you will see

Correction: this story has been modified to clarify that the drone used in the U of T experiment was not a government drone, but a UAV owned by the university.

They hijacked their own drone.

[SueRae]

Most disconcerting news. Countermeasures anyone?

[Travis McGee]

ping

[SeminoleCounty]

If drones are so easy to hack...drones will be rendered useless

Which is good for Americans, because drones should not be used to spy on US citizens. They should be used only when a truly national security matter is involved

[ops33]

Spoofing. It used to be called Meaconing.

[Hardraade]

How long before some techie libtard uses this to swat congress?

[nascarnation]

I'm waiting for the home version for drone reduction:

[the invisib1e hand]

I’d do it for half that.

[Traveler59]

Like I said before, with parts from Radio Shack you build a broadband RF white noise transmitter. It'll jam the GPS receiver on the drone.