Iraqi insurgents using $26 software to monitor Predator video feeds

[Deleted member 651465]

http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/17/iraqi-insurgents-using-26-software-to-monitor-predator-video-fe/

Frankly I can't believe they've known about this for so long yet they wait for the enemy to take advantage before they act

Got to love the comments too...

What's even more hilarious is for $10 more bucks you can get the browser plug-in to target and fire it's weapons. Unfortunately you have to sign up for a WindowsLIVE ID account, which thankfully; no insurgent is willing to do. Hey, they may be insurgents, but they aren't stupid.

 

[ruffneck]

LOL that is actually hilarious

 

[Ziggy]

"The UAV is online."

 

[Fenris]

"The UAV is online."

So thats why those pesky russians kept dodging my missiles.

 

[mattheman]

lol right iam signing up get full control of it and bomb tefals house.

 

[The Dread Pirate]

Marionette Puppets!
Muppets!

 

[mattheman]

site a bit slow.

 

[Kenai]

site a bit slow.

Fine here, I expect a dark matter augmented Hitler is hacking your connection.

 

[Cosimo]

lol right iam signing up get full control of it and bomb tefals house.

Try No10 instead, it will make you very popular.

 

[eddie86]

An unencrypted link eh? Nice security measures taken there then!

 

[Doonhamer]

The details are slightly different in that article than the one I read elsewhere.

According to the other article the Air force operate all the drones in Afghanistan and Iraq. The CIA covers Pakistan and those have always been encrypted. Its only Air Force birds that have had the links intercepted and even then the picture would be so bad it would often be little or no use as there wasn't the definition to make out the area it was monitoring.

Other thing that surprised me was that they are using over 600 of these things at the moment. Would I be right in saying the UK only has one after the other one was destroyed in Iraq?

 

[Bes]

Surely that cannot be true.... No one is stupid enough to send data like that unencrypted.

 

[LOAM]

wall hack

 

[The Dread Pirate]

lol right iam signing up get full control of it and bomb tefals house.

That might be harder than you think I've seen many a building with Tefal Written on it so it may take a while to find the correct building!

 

[fadetoblack]

Smells like B/s to me

 

[edscdk]

Surely that cannot be true.... No one is stupid enough to send data like that unencrypted.

accept the americans it would appear....

 

[Cosimo]

Surely that cannot be true.... No one is stupid enough to send data like that unencrypted.

Maybe they are.

 

[The Dread Pirate]

except the americans it would appear....

fixed

 

[Cosimo]

fixed

They probably have fixed it by now.

 

[Doonhamer]

They are in the process of doing so but with 600 of the things its taking them a little time.