An MQ-1B Predator unmanned aerial vehicle prepares to land at Balad Air Base, Iraq.Senior Airman Olufemi A. Owolabi / Air Force
Encryption Of Drone Feeds Won't Finish Until 2014, Air Force Says -- Washington Post
It will take at least until 2014 to encrypt video feeds from the U.S. military's Predator and Reaper drones to prevent enemy forces from intercepting the information, Air Force officials said Friday.
Reports this week said U.S. forces had discovered that insurgents in Iraq, using inexpensive, off-the-shelf software, had been able to hack into video feeds from the drones, which are used for surveillance and launching missiles in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Some Pentagon officials initially dismissed the reports, saying this was an old problem that had been addressed.
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More News On The Interception of Drone Video Feeds by Insurgents
Fixes on the way for nonsecure UAV links -- Army Times
Officers Warned of Flaw in U.S. Drones in 2004 -- Wall Street Journal
No damage to hacked U.S. drones: admiral -- CBC
'Hack' May Be Too Strong A Word For Predator Video Grab -- NPR
Drone incident serves up data encryption lesson -- Computer World
SkyGrabber: hack of US drones shows how quickly insurgents adapt -- Christian Science Monitor
SkyGrabber: Is hacking military drones too easy? -- Christian Science Monitor
Islamic insurgents hack into CIA state-of-the-art Predator drones -- Times Online
Sharing drone feeds with the enemy -- Foreign Policy
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