Drone hijacked by hackers from Texas college
IF you carefully read the above word button and article accompanying it, you can see the real danger now that hacking or spoofing is in place. This likely began with the hacking of a U.S. Military drone that Iran did to it which caused it to veer off course and to land in Iran by spoofing the operating system of the drone and taking power from the U.S. operator away.
However, Texas college students with the help of their teacher with only $1000 of components were able to hack a college owned drone and to almost crash it into the ground. They flew it within a few feet of crashing it into the ground before they released it so it didn't crash.
However, the problem now is that anyone with the expertise and $1000 of spoofing technology now can take over almost any drone and crash it into almost anyone or anything and legally this likely will become more and more of a problem. Because the hacker could easily turn any drone into a lethal weapon.
Imagine you are walking down a street and a small 4 to 6 bladed drone crashes into you at over 100 miles per hour. First of all, you don't see it, and then likely (depending upon the accuracy of the person flying it) you are either severely injured or dead.
And the person who actually owns the drone is still wondering what happened! Because he or she didn't do this, the hacker did who might remain anonymous for a variety of reasons.
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