Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones!

kosandpol

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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:
     

    kosandpol

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    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.
     

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    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
    :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


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    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