On May 24, 2011, at 9:29 06PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
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From: "Jimmy Hess" <mysidia@gmail.com>
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:34 PM, <Vinny_Abello@dell.com> wrote:
I think those within the organization that deploy those vehicles or are Navy SEALs might sit at different lunch tables than the guys worried about IP address collisions. ;-)
The F/A-18 Hornets, F/A-22 Raptors are well, and good, but that's old technology The folks in charge of the MQ-1 predator drones might sit closer to the guys worried about the IP addresses.
And automated drone strikes can always be blamed on a malfunction caused by the hijacking
If packets that control armed drones cross any router that has access even to SIPRnet, much less the Internet, someone's getting relieved.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Militants-Hack-Unencrypted-Drone-Feeds-477... --Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb