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There are a lot of cool things you can do with $1,000, but scientists at an Austin, Texas college have come across one that is often overlooked: for less than a grand, howd you like to hijack a US government drone?
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 operated by the US Department of Homeland Security.
After being challenged by his lab, the DHS dared Humphreys crew to hack into their 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 DHS 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
ttp://rt.com/usa/news/texas-1000-us-government-906/
freshwest
(53,661 posts)villager
(26,001 posts)n/t
Louise1
(6 posts)Sirveri
(4,517 posts)Then it'll set up so folks can more easily click on it.
malthaussen
(17,242 posts)I can just see those smug, sneering DHS people telling Humphreys "Try it and see how far you get." God, I'd have loved to be a fly on the wall when the crow was served.
-- Mal