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**Evoncalabbalo** · 12-18-2009, 01:25 AM

I'm not saying it was not useful (not useful because it will be fixed very quickly, if not already has been), just stressing that the situation isn't the end of the world.

Not the end of the world at all, but

http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/17/i...ator-video-fe/

Pentagon officials have known about this flaw since the 1990s, but they didn't think insurgents would figure out how to exploit it. Way to underestimate, guys. The WSJ says the military is working to encrypt all Predator feeds from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, but it's slow going because the Predator network is more than a decade old and based on proprietary tech -- too bad it's not proprietary enough to keep prying eyes out of it.

12-18-2009, 01:25 AM	#8
Evoncalabbalo Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 572 Senior Member	I'm not saying it was not useful (not useful because it will be fixed very quickly, if not already has been), just stressing that the situation isn't the end of the world. Not the end of the world at all, but http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/17/i...ator-video-fe/ Pentagon officials have known about this flaw since the 1990s, but they didn't think insurgents would figure out how to exploit it. Way to underestimate, guys. The WSJ says the military is working to encrypt all Predator feeds from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, but it's slow going because the Predator network is more than a decade old and based on proprietary tech -- too bad it's not proprietary enough to keep prying eyes out of it.
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