Reddog1 - This One's For You!

[cjjtulsa]

And the braintrust at the Pentagon insist that the drone in Iran just "crashed"? Intact? LOL!

A group of researchers led by Professor Todd Humphreys from the University of Texas at Austin Radionavigation Laboratory recently succeeded in raising the eyebrows of the US government. With just around $1,000 in parts, Humphreys’ team took control of an unmanned aerial vehicle owned by the college, all in front of the US Department of Homeland Security.

After being challenged by his lab, the DHS dared Humphreys’ crew to hack into a drone and take command. Much to their chagrin, they did exactly that.

Humphrey tells Fox News that for a few hundreds dollar his team was able to “spoof” the GPS system on board the drone, a technique that involves mimicking the actual signals sent to the global positioning device and then eventually tricking the target into following a new set of commands. And, for just $1,000, Humphreys says the spoofer his team assembled was the most advanced one ever built.

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

 

[ArGyLe64]

I don't know what's more impressive. The fact that the drone can and was hacked or that there's enough intelligence at the University of Texas to complete this feat.

 

[reddog1]

I read about this the other day, I am in the process of creating these available to the general awake public for 749.99 each. Details @ 10.

 

[reddog1]

Plus tax!!!

 

[HMT204]

Plus tax!!!

Great just great... Get reddog1 started on the drone thingy again...

 

[peanut]

Isn't this the same way Iran recent "acquired" our drone?

 

[SMS]

They've since corrected the story to clarify that the drone was one owned by the university, not a DHS drone.

Still a neat trick though. One that is pretty easily countered by using encrypted GPS signals...but that adds operational costs.

 

[bmwguy25]

While the parts were purchased for less than a grand the software is where all the $$ was. they had been developing it for awhile. Very similar to what iran used on ours I imagine.

 

[HMT204]

They've since corrected the story to clarify that the drone was one owned by the university, not a DHS drone.

Still a neat trick though. One that is pretty easily countered by using encrypted GPS signals...but that adds operational costs.

Umm it was stated in the article....


(Humphreys’ team took control of an unmanned aerial vehicle owned by the college,)

Pet peeve people that do not read entire posts....

 

[SMS]

Umm it was stated in the article....


(Humphreys’ team took control of an unmanned aerial vehicle owned by the college,)

Pet peeve people that do not read entire posts....

"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."

Previous version stated it was owned by DHS.....