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Hey, this one looks big enough to carry at least a 80286 chip, and some software for encrypting and countermeasures.
If we want to.
Maybe the drone can deliver some AKs while in the area.
Our govt is willfully ignorant and incompetent. The whole world laughs at us.
We need a President that will kick ass and take names. Fire the incompetents.
Drug dealers pose a major danger to us in many ways. Recently there has been discussion about heroin epidemic. The most additive drug is black tar heroin, and all of the dealers are illegal aliens from Mexico.
They have destroyed entire communities and are spreading. An odd fact I read about them is that they are ordered to sell black tar, which has enormously high overdose rate, only to WHITES.
The US government has long underestimated the communications-electronics capabilities of the cartels. To their credit, they used millions of dollars to buy top of the line systems, including advanced encryption, electronic intelligence gathering against the DEA and Coast Guard, and everything else they needed, including jamming, Internet “black-hat hackers”, and lots of informers.
They even went so far as to include deep cover mole agents, who would only function if major stakes were involved, so are very hard to detect.
Nothing replaces boots-on-the-border...
There has been a FORTUNE spent on ‘electronic’ border control and it’s a joke! Has never, will never work. Lots of cronyism and $$ wasted to political operatives who want to keep the border open though!
Now,we know Obama and Jeh Johnson aren’t even trying, but the R’s weren’t any better.
July 2006 This guy was in charge of much of the electronic border patrol purchases.
The President nominates David L. Norquist, brother of Grover Norquist to Chief Financial Officer at the Department of Homeland Security.
Now Mr. Norquist is nominated to handle the funds at HOMELAND SECURITY after not being able to do the same same for the Defense Dept?
September 22, 2006
The SBI Net contract -”virtual fence”- LOOK who will handle the money!
Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff announced Thursday, the implementation of a high tech, high priced deal with Boeing for “virtual border security”. What will be interesting about this is if David Norquist, recently appointed by Pres. Bush to handle the finances at homeland security does as bad a job as he did with handling the more than questionable spending on Haliburton with the Defense Dept. Norquist is the brother of Grover Norquist, the White House policy maker for immigration/amnesty/open borders and founder of the Islamic Institute.
May 27, 2006 - The Senate also confirmed David L. Norquist as Homeland Security’s chief financial officer, and former Secret Service director Ralph Basham as commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
May 8, 2006 -
DHS Nominee for CFO Grilled About Role in Hiding Alleged Overcharges by Halliburton [snip]
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=david+norquist
Cost about 9 million. They get this basic fact wrong.
Have secure links.
Cartels can’t hack them.
No report of the kind this article references.
Border Patrol does not operate the drone.
Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine do. The fact the article gets this basic fact wrong indicates they are not well informed.
And GPS spoofing takes a lot of power to over-ride the signal as these platforms fly well above 10,000 feet. And the operators have INS back-up so even if GPS went down for whatever reason, they would not be affected. Additionally, there is at all times a man flying the platform and a system operator—not an autonomous system.
The drone hackers should be hit with mortar attacks.
I’ve been waiting for some 12 year old to hack Amazon’s drones for a few extra Christmas presents.
Just end this stupidity with spread spectrum transmission. Load the frequency hopping sequence at time of launch in both drone and control panel. There’s no way it can then be jammed or hacked.