Saturday, October 8, 2011

Does Norton do Predators?

This is not good. The Defense Department admitted that an unknown someone loaded malware on the operating software that controls our drones in Afghanistan. Despite several efforts to remove the bug it keeps popping up.

It doesn't take much imagination to realize what could happen if an unknown person could take control at will of these killer drones. The alternative is to keep them grounded, which threatens the lives of our ground troops and prevents a vigorous prosecution of the war against key Taliban and al Qaeda figures. The military has previously somewhat sheepishly announced that with use a of a $26 piece of equipment the bad guys could - and did - intercept the video feed from the drones because the digital signal isn't encrypted. I don't know who is running the digital warfare show at the Pentagon, but it sounds like it's past time to replace him with some 18-year old hacker who knows what he or she is doing.

www.pcworld.com/article/241507/computers_controlling_military_drones_reportedly_infected_with_virus.html#tk.hp_new

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