[RFEngineer]

“he insurgents were not able to control the Predator drones, but military personnel told the newspaper that tactical advantages may have been compromised by the breach.”

This is a fairly comical assessment. May have been compromised?

We spent how much for these drones, and the feeds can be easily intercepted?

Governmental incompetence, contractor greed over patriotism.

Now that the terrorists have been able to develop their countermeasures, since they have had a chance to test them under live conditions, we have a much less effective system.

Idiots. Just idiots.

[ChiefKujo]

The problem here is these video feeds have telemetry information such as where the sensor platform is located (altitude, location, airspeed) and more importantly, what they are looking at (location, altitude) and, by observing what they focus on over time, they can figure out the mission of that sensor platform.

It is pretty weak to claim that the enemy can't take control of the system. That is comparable to saying well, the enemy knows where the FBI stakeout teams are, can monitor their sensors and radio traffic, but at least they can't remotely start the swat team van's engine.