Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones!

[sri_lion]

Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations.

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Oops! :P

[gerald]

lol thx 4 da share

[madurax86]

LOL US military fails on video encryption?
EPIC! thats what they told which will never happen :lol:

[nipuna777]

wow!

[sri_lion]

LOL US military fails on video encryption?
EPIC! thats what they told which will never happen :lol:

Either they are really stupid or really underestimated the enemy or maybe both....

LAME! :lol:

[nipuna777]

LOL US military fails on video encryption?
EPIC! thats what they told which will never happen :lol:

lol yeah. True that.

I wonder if they have xp machines in those drones :D

[nismok]

Oh, Poor U.S.

[sri_lion]

lol yeah. True that.

I wonder if they have xp machines in those drones :D

What's more funny is that the software they used to intercept the drone was made in Russia! :lol:

So it seems Russia had a $26 solution for U.S's $5 million threat! Hilarious! :lol:

[madurax86]

What's more funny is that the software they used to intercept the drone was made in Russia! :lol:

So it seems Russia had a $26 solution for U.S's $5 million threat! Hilarious! :lol:

lolNESS!! OMG! Russian's have been making simpler technologies all the way then i thought the last was AK47 lol -- we don't get much info about russia because of this US mumbo jumbo :P

[kosandpol]

What's more funny is that the software they used to intercept the drone was made in Russia! :lol:

So it seems Russia had a $26 solution for U.S's $5 million threat! Hilarious! :lol:
F*cking LOLZ!!! :lol: :lol:
Buying stocks in that Russian company would be a good idea. :lol:

[LKS007]

wade maru ne iraQ

[sri_lion]

lolNESS!! OMG! Russian's have been making simpler technologies all the way then i thought the last was AK47 lol -- we don't get much info about russia because of this US mumbo jumbo :P

Well Russia is all about Quantity, I dont remember I've said this before but, look at what happened during WWII, while Hitler making SUPER DUPER mammoth TIGER TANKS, Russians were rolling out simpler sloped armored T-34s, while 1-on-1 T-34 is no match for a TIGER TANK (even 1 on 4 :lol:) what can you do when you are ridiculously out numbered! :lol:

Anyway I can't help thinking that, with all the advance gadgets US may have they still underestimate their enemies a lot.. so at the end of the day human factor still counts!

[sri_lion]

F*cking LOLZ!!! :lol: :lol:
Buying stocks in that Russian company would be a good idea. :lol:

Yeah if its not already bought over by U.S.! :lol:

[kosandpol]

Yeah if its not already bought over by U.S.! :lol:
maybe the nut jobs in the pentagon are rethinking their policy on data encryption.
I'm sure their own limitations went about in getting their drones hacked.

[madurax86]

Well Russia is all about Quantity, I dont remember I've said this before but, look at what happened during WWII, while Hitler making SUPER DUPER mammoth TIGER TANKS, Russians were rolling out simpler sloped armored T-34s, while 1-on-1 T-34 is no match for a TIGER TANK (even 1 on 4 :lol:) what can you do when you are ridiculously out numbered! :lol:

Anyway I can't help thinking that, with all the advance gadgets US may have they still underestimate their enemies a lot.. so at the end of the day human factor still counts!

you know why? its the jews! lol well making lots of T34s was a better battle tactic than making few big ass quality tanks the case is Hilter was so high on singular stuff lol take bismark no ship cant stand one-on-one with it either but bunch 'o churchil's tug boats managed to sink it :D samething man clustering wins at the end!:rofl:

[madurax86]

maybe the nut jobs in the pentagon are rethinking their policy on data encryption.
I'm sure their own limitations went about in getting their drones hacked.

Or we should get the Encrypto dude --Dan Brown-- in to making a new algorithm as he talks alot about encryption in his Digital Fortress lol made me smile once when i read it then i stopped readin it! lol

[kosandpol]

you know why? its the jews! lol well making lots of T34s was a better battle tactic than making few big ass quality tanks the case is Hilter was so high on singular stuff lol take bismark no ship cant stand one-on-one with it either but bunch 'o churchil's tug boats managed to sink it :D samething man clustering wins at the end!:rofl:
Germany's loss to Russia in that war was not limited to Russia having more tanks. There was a lot more factors than that.
Dont forget, after that battle was over, even though Russia won it, they had the highest number of casualties. More than double the German casualties.
Also, AFAIK, the T-34 was not a Jewish design.

[gani01]

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

[sri_lion]

you know why? its the jews! lol well making lots of T34s was a better battle tactic than making few big ass quality tanks the case is Hilter was so high on singular stuff lol take bismark no ship cant stand one-on-one with it either but bunch 'o churchil's tug boats managed to sink it :D samething man clustering wins at the end!:rofl:

HAHA Yeah! :lol:

Just out of curiosity I just checked the numbers built from both sides.. look at this..

According to Wikipedia:

Germans built 1800~ Tiger Tanks (Both variants I & II)
Russians built 84000~ T-34s :rofl:

That's like 45 T-34s for every Tiger Tank! HAHAHA that's too much even for a Tiger Tank! :lol:

[kosandpol]

Or we should get the Encrypto dude --Dan Brown-- in to making a new algorithm as he talks alot about encryption in his Digital Fortress lol made me smile once when i read it then i stopped readin it! lol
Dan Brown to set encryption algo ?
Considering a 5million dollar project went south due to a 26 dollar gadget, that might not be a bad idea either. :lol:

[kosandpol]

HAHA Yeah! :lol:

Just out of curiosity I just checked the numbers built from both sides.. look at this..

According to Wikipedia:

Germans built 1800~ Tiger Tanks (Both variants I & II)
Russians built 84000~ T-34s :rofl:

That's like 45 T-34s for every Tiger Tank! HAHAHA that's too much even for a Tiger Tank! :lol:
Check the production dates as well. those 84000 T-34s includes the ones built during the cold war days as well. Not just WW2.

[sri_lion]

Germany's loss to Russia in that war was not limited to Russia having more tanks. There was a lot more factors than that.
Dont forget, after that battle was over, even though Russia won it, they had the highest number of casualties. More than double the German casualties.
Also, AFAIK, the T-34 was not a Jewish design.

I agree!

Stalin is to be blamed for the higher casualties of Russia mainly because he wanted to lure Germans into Moscow and trap them during the winter and launch the counter offensive, for this he had to sacrifice men to slow down the German advance towards Moscow and Germans were poorly equipped for winter!

So even climate played a big role!

[madurax86]

Dan Brown to set encryption algo ?
Considering a 5million dollar project went south due to a 26 dollar gadget, that might not be a bad idea either. :lol:
no the guy talked so much about it :lol: and i dont think that the average science-fiction reader would like the details lol according to him sexy girls work at NSA on encryption algo design....it makes any person rather old to even learn the subject thoroughly and to pass the exams at that time sexiness might have gone away i think(AFAIK :lol:)

[madurax86]

Germany's loss to Russia in that war was not limited to Russia having more tanks. There was a lot more factors than that.
Dont forget, after that battle was over, even though Russia won it, they had the highest number of casualties. More than double the German casualties.
Also, AFAIK, the T-34 was not a Jewish design.

I said its the 'jews' because they under estimate others :lol: T34 is too simple for a jew to even operate! :rofl:

[sri_lion]

Check the production dates as well. those 84000 T-34s includes the ones built during the cold war days as well. Not just WW2.

You are right!

Wikipedia says:

By the end of 1945, over 57,000 T-34s had been built

So I guess the number should be around there.... yet still out numbered by a good 30:1 margin!

[kosandpol]

I agree!

Stalin is to be blamed for the higher casualties of Russia mainly because he wanted to lure Germans into Moscow and trap them during the winter and launch the counter offensive, for this he had to sacrifice men to slow down the German advance towards Moscow and Germans were poorly equipped for winter!

So even climate played a big role!
Not Stalin. he was wise enough to let the military run the war.
However one major factor was the allied forces landing in the Mediterranean, putting Italy and south Europe in to defense mode. Now the German military had 2 fronts to defend at the same time and it was winter in Russia at the same time. Mussolini, who had Hitler's ear managed to get the German forces to defend Italy and southern Europe so the Russian front got the step motherly treatment.
On top of that, the Russian defense built up was exceptional and their anti tank defense lines were so well done that its now in the text books of tank warfare. Even the Tiger tanks were not able to penetrate those defense lines. If the Russian front did get proper support they needed the town would've been named Hitlergrad.

[RuZZa]

LMFAO :p:p

[Thushara-SL]

ha ha haa anna wada...

[lkdood]

Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations.

Read More >> (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126102247889095011.html)

Oops! :P:lol: owa ohoma thamai :lol:

a civilian in UK who has a satellite dish & receiver accessed a US spy satellite feed

he was getting live coverage from Iraq :rofl:

the feed was not encrypted

after sometime the feed was encrypted


latest on this story

US fixed drones hacked by Iraqi insurgents: Pentagon


The US military has fixed a problem that allowed Iraqi militants to use cheap software to intercept the video feeds of US-operated drones, a defense official said on Thursday.

"This is an old issue that's been addressed," the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told reporters.

The problem has been "taken care of," he said.

The official spoke after the Wall Street Journal reported that Iranian-backed Shiite insurgents had used software programs such as SkyGrabber -- available online for 25.95 dollars (18 euros) -- to capture live video footage from drones.

The official confirmed the report was accurate but would not discuss details of efforts to encrypt the link between drones and operators on the ground.

The case raised questions about the security of the country's highly valued drones that are central to US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as CIA manhunts against Al-Qaeda figures in Pakistan.

Gates has put a priority on devoting more drones to Afghanistan and on expanding and improving the drone fleet, which include Predator and Reaper aircraft armed with precision-guided bombs and Hellfire missiles.

James Clapper, the undersecretary of defense for intelligence, reviewed the problem on orders from Defense Secretary Robert Gates and concluded the hacking by Iraqi insurgents revealed a flaw in the security of the drone fleet.

The practice was uncovered in July 2009, when the US military found files of intercepted drone video feeds on the laptop of a captured militant, intelligence and defense officials told the Journal.

They discovered "days and days and hours and hours of proof," an unnamed source told the Journal. "It is part of their kits now."

Some of the most detailed examples of drone intercepts have been uncovered in Iraq, but the same technique is known to have been employed in Afghanistan and could easily be used in other areas where US drones operate.

The US government has known about the flaw since the 1990s, but assumed its adversaries would not be able to take advantage of it, the Journal said.

There was no evidence that militants could control the drones or otherwise interfere with their flights, but the vulnerability would allow the unmanned craft to be monitored and tracked.

Adding encryption to a decade-old system requires upgrading several components of the system linking drones to ground control.

One of the developers of SkyGrabber, which is made by Russian company SkySoftware, told the Journal he had no idea the program could be used to intercept drone feeds.

"It was developed to intercept music, photos, video, programs and other content that other users download from the Internet -- no military data or other commercial data, only free legal content," Andrew Solonikov told the Journal.
AFP (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091217/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestusweaponsiranafghanistan)

[hamish]

thnx 4 da in4 mchn

[twisted]

at least whole iraq war thing will inspire some epic american anti war movies ..the only good thing comes outa america nowadays lol .

[kosandpol]

at least whole iraq war thing will inspire some epic american anti war movies ..the only good thing comes outa america nowadays lol .
only good thing ? arnt you forgetting PORN ?? :lol:

[twisted]

only good thing ? arnt you forgetting PORN ?? :lol:

which i thought would fall under movie category :lol:

but looks like we should start checking out russian porn. :lol:

[kosandpol]

which i thought would fall under movie category :lol:

but looks like we should start checking out russian porn. :lol:
the language is the only problem.. :lol:

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is this the same technology used by ITN and Rupavahini to hack into UNFs press conferences? :P

[kosandpol]

is this the same technology used by ITN and Rupavahini to hack into UNFs press conferences? :P
does SL have 5 million dollar US army drones ?? :oo:

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does SL have 5 million dollar US army drones ?? :oo:
yeah.. havent u seen

[kosandpol]

yeah.. havent u seen
I dont go about hunting for army drones. Thats a good way to get your self shot.

[MCLINER]

I dont go about hunting for army drones. Thats a good way to get your self shot.
hmmm... yeah... hehe... u r so sweet

[kosandpol]

hmmm... yeah... hehe... u r so sweet
err ? sweet ?.. :eek:
Should I be scared about now ? :oo:

[lkdood]

does SL have 5 million dollar US army drones ?? :oo:
no

sri lanka has Israeli built reconnaissance

no weapon capability

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no

sri lanka has Israeli built reconnaissance

no weapon capability
but they can hang some bombs and stuff if they want nah...?

[lkdood]

but they can hang some bombs and stuff if they want nah...?
no

[MCLINER]

no
why? they could use some ropes and some glue etc and try to fix a couple of bombs noh?

[MCLINER]

err ? sweet ?.. :eek:
Should I be scared about now ? :oo:
:lol:
im just crazy bro

[kosandpol]

why? they could use some ropes and some glue etc and try to fix a couple of bombs noh?
well if they want to blow themselves up, they can do that. :D

[kosandpol]

:lol:
im just crazy bro
ah, ok. That explains a lot. :P

[twisted]

the language is the only problem.. :lol:

wha? isn't that like a cosmic language? :P not russian i mean porn noises.

hmmm... yeah... hehe... u r so sweet

err ? sweet ?.. :eek:
Should I be scared about now ? :oo:

:rofl:

[MCLINER]

wha? isn't that like a cosmic language? :P not russian i mean porn noises.





:rofl:
u r sweet too

[MCLINER]

well if they want to blow themselves up, they can do that. :D
yeah LTTE style

[kosandpol]

wha? isn't that like a cosmic language? :P not russian i mean porn noises.

well it would be nice to know what they say before and after the cosmic language is used.. :D

[twisted]

u r sweet too

why, thank you :)

well it would be nice to know what they say before and after the cosmic language is used.. :D

hopefully something poetic...russians know how to appreciate art :)

[kosandpol]

why, thank you :)



hopefully something poetic...russians know how to appreciate art :)
something about breasts being the sunrise of the spring ? :lol:

[twisted]

something about breasts being the sunrise of the spring ? :lol:

now don't tell me you've been using breasts to demonstrate sunrise to kids :lol: sun won't be the only thing thatd rise.

[kosandpol]

now don't tell me you've been using breasts to demonstrate sunrise to kids :lol: sun won't be the only thing thatd rise.
well, there's 2 of them and both nice and round. Easy to explain .. :lol:
Though the rotating part was a bit awkward.. :D

[twisted]

lmao i got +repped for this conversation whoever did it pls let me know so i can return the favor lol.

[twisted]

well, there's 2 of them and both nice and round. Easy to explain .. :lol:
Though the rotating part was a bit awkward.. :D

apparently atula is not the only one with a strange fetish :lol:

anyway now think like a russian ..what would you say after and before this ..certain demo :)

[kosandpol]

apparently atula is not the only one with a strange fetish :lol:

anyway now think like a russian ..what would you say after and before this ..certain demo :)
"Time for some vodka." :lol:

[twisted]

"Time for some vodka." :lol:

sexandvodka :lol:

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sexandvodka :lol:

:lol:
hehe

[harintheman]

woooww wat a tight security system it only takes $26 to hack it lols no wonder that 14yr fellow hacked nasa

[lkdood]

woooww wat a tight security system it only takes $26 to hack it lols no wonder that 14yr fellow hacked nasa
vulnerability eka fix karala dan hack karan na bari wen na

[kosandpol]

wonder if this is appropriate :
lyHSjv9gxlE
:lol:

[Ranhiru]

LOL!! Wonder what the software is!! :P :P
And come on!! Its freaking US Military!!! No encryption to the video feed???

A US Army Drone : 5 Million USD
Using an unencrypted link : Epic!
The software being 26 USD : Priceless!!

LOL

[lkdood]

LOL!! Wonder what the software is!! :P :P
And come on!! Its freaking US Military!!! No encryption to the video feed???

A US Army Drone : 5 Million USD
Using an unencrypted link : Epic!
The software being 26 USD : Priceless!!

LOLnow corrected

[Ranhiru]

“Who were the lame engineers who came up with a system that runs without encryption? Even the graduates of the local high school programming courses know better than to leave to chance an important security hole."


LOL

[blood_brotha]

what the US has is superior propaganda... from hollywood to internet message boards.. they portray the US military as an deadly invulnerable force... the reality is very different..

[blood_brotha]

the language is the only problem.. :lol:

who the f cares lolz

[sri_lion]

the language is the only problem.. :lol:

Who needs to understand? Although everyone can guess there are very few words that would match! :lol:

[sri_lion]

vulnerability eka fix karala dan hack karan na bari wen na

Well.. it should not have existed in the very first place! :lol:

[sri_lion]

LOL!! Wonder what the software is!! :P :P
LOL

"SkyGrabber" it seems!

[kosandpol]

Who needs to understand? Although everyone can guess there are very few words that would match! :lol:
ah, but you always want to know if they said "lets do doggy style" or "lets do the doggy" before actually watching that bit. :D

[madurax86]

wonder if this is appropriate :
lyHSjv9gxlE
:lol:

KgCHkK9G8ic
:rofl:

[lkdood]

Well.. it should not have existed in the very first place! :lol:
:yes: