>DOD testers found significant vulnerabilities in the department’s weapon systems, some of which began with poor basic password security or lack of encryption. As previous hacks of government systems, like the breach at the Office of Personnel Management or the breach of the DOD’s unclassified email server, have taught us, poor basic security hygiene can be the downfall of otherwise complex systems. The GAO report says that one tester was able to guess an admin password on a weapons system in nine seconds. Other weapons used commercial or open source software but administers failed to change the default passwords. Yet another tester managed to partially shut down a weapons system by merely scanning it—a technique so basic, the GAO says, it “requires little knowledge or expertise.”
>Testers were sometimes able to take full control of these weapons. “In one case, it took a two-person test team just one hour to gain initial access to a weapon system and one day to gain full control of the system they were testing,” the report states. The DOD also had a hard time detecting when testers were probing the weapons. In one case, testers were in the weapons system for weeks, according to the GAO, but the administrators never found them. This, despite the testers being intentionally “noisy.” In other cases, the report states that automated systems did detect the testers, but that the humans responsible for monitoring those systems didn’t understand what the intrusion technology was trying to tell them.'
Sounds like (((they)) want to use drones for false flags, and just blame Russian hackers or some sheeeeeit
Ian Smith
Oy Vey! Bad goyim found out what Israel/Jewtin are planning to sell China when the war starts.
Justin Green
Have no fear. New York City announced yesterday that they would increase funding to improve science education for citizens (blacks) living in public housing.
Know this. China gonna know, son.
Adrian Brooks
This is actually how Russia's counter UAV units are designed to fight us should a war break out. Worst case scenario where they can't outright hack the things, they either jam the connection to home or fry the circuitry.
Russia relies on a lot of line of sight laser communication precisely because any data beamed over radio is up for grabs and easily impersonated.
These hunks of junk are useless in a real war, but I suppose their ace for policing the citizenry.
Carter Hernandez
Americans have been seeing their glorified RC planes blowing up illiterate pakistani goat herders with impunity and translate that into drones being wonderweapons able to survive in modern air battle environment. It's lunacy. This shows that the Russians or Chinks wouldn't even NEED to waste a good surface-to-air missile to shoot them down, they can literally turn them around and waste the air base who send them.
Ian Powell
I love how the commies all start crowing yet they keep forgetting we have more than just some remote controlled toys designed for goat fuckers.
I've been trying to point this out to normalfags for years. Even if the security was perfect, UCAVs will be worthless against any modern opponent until/unless they can be given the ability to carry out missions fully autonomously. They would still be only slightly less than worthless without air supremacy even then.
Jordan Martin
They already have this.
Henry Mitchell
Friendly reminder that almost all military UAV video feeds are unencrypted.
James Powell
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Cooper Carter
remember when they hacked and landed a sentinel drone in Iran a few years ago? they've been given the back door keys.
Mason Davis
lmao this is perfect. still play to this day.
Jordan Butler
i'm kinda with Hillary though, at this point what difference does it make ?
these things only exist to fight proxy wars for Israel anyway, so what is this article trying to do ? Tell the goys their money was well spent or provide an excuse for more billions to go down the toilet while rights gets sold down the river anyway ?
Alexander Hernandez
It crashed, either due to malfunction or controller error. That's why they had to hide the undercarriage.
Besides, Iran is notorious for lying about it's capabilities. They're so actually retarded they think people are fooled by bad photoshop and shoddy mock-ups. Check out their "Qaher-313"
Or, we can not be retarded and use them to kill yids.
Grayson King
I can see it now man. The Iranians mind controlled Larry Silverstein into getting billions of dollars and those box cutters were actually pocket sized directed energy thermonuclear weapons that Iran is a world leader in
Robert Robinson
They are in total denial obviously.
Jack Gray
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Jaxon Rogers
Its just pathetic, thats all. Everything that is important or actually jeopardizes national security gets blown off or ignored. But they'll worry their asses off when they offend some 'minority' if they are politically incorrect.
Benjamin Fisher
Whether or not these systems used easy-to-guess passwords, it is meaningless. These systems are on closed networks with NO OUTSIDE ACCESS, meaning someone would have to have physical access to a machine on the network in order to make use of a password. The passwords can't be input remotely unlike a cellphone or laptop.
Colton Cooper
because hacking works like it does in (((Hollywood))) you good goyim have been watching too many movies and should be gassed along with your masters
Guessing the password is an easy task, sure. But you'd have to have physical access to a controller station or the UAV itself to attempt to input it. You don't just shoot a laser beam at a drone and take control of it. You have to figure out where the damn thing is (it's radar absorbent and hard to see), then figure out what frequency it operates at at a given point in time (I'm 100% sure the control radio frequency changes over time just for this reason), then figure out what communication protocol the thing uses (hell no it doesn't use wi-fi or TCP, that's just fucking asking to get BTFO'd), then input the password before the control frequency changes, then figure out the fucking flight controls as a series of binary bits of data, then transmit the data, then fight the actual drone operator for control of the system, which has failsafes built in that will kick in because "something's wrong with the drone controls I'm pulling it back"
this is a slide thread and OP is a faggot
Luis Ortiz
Boy you're retarded, you don't hack the drone. You just feed it false GPS data while broad spectrum jamming suspected control freq ranges. The drone just thinks it lost connection so it will return to a home point and since you are feeding it fake GPS signals, you now control where the drone goes. We'll see what drone operators have done to try and mitigate it.
Hudson Cruz
this is such horse shit. pandering to the increasingly nervous zionist so they can keep the MIC bux flowing. DoD is modernized in almost all aspects to the T. robust, secure digital waveforms resilient to every known form of jamming. no mention of what "weapon system" was "hacked" or from what era it came from. gay ass journos shilling for the state, you all should know better to fall for this boomer fear porn.
Christian Hughes
American universities are full of chink spies.
Benjamin Bell
the fact that half of this board is this stupid is just sad.
people that think hacking is like in the movies, people like OP. They are the infantry. Theres nothing we can do with these guys but tell they memes to spam.
Blake King
No, they faked a gps signal iirc
Caleb Roberts
They tried this false flag before during the Obama years. They were saying how college kids with simple off the shelf hardware could hijack military drones and bomb targets. The deep state could bomb targets in the US and blame hackers or any group they don't like.
You know what never gets bombed? Vacation spots for the mega rich - you know, the people behind the military industrial complex, finance industry, war industry, etc.
If I remember right Iran realized that one of our UAV's use the same frequency as a typical baby monitor, so it was easy to hijack.
Parker Watson
If that was the case, China, India, Pakistan or Russia would power them on and fly them to their bases via satellite. The one in Iran was most likely a trap. Now they know where they do their military research if they didn't already.
Alexander Bell
News like this is always propaganda. The military doesn't do press releases showcasing their vulnerabilities. It's an obvious staging for a false-flag attack. I can imagine the next headline saying something like "Military Drone Hijacked by Iran. Apartment Building Bombed."
Wyatt Morales
It's not a false accusation that the military is severely outdated in terms of software security. They're running on 80s technology because the boomers in charge don't understand anything beyond 'if it ain't broke' and their recruitment practices reflect that. Seriously, a couple slumborn Pajeets could outcode 80% of enlisted computer personnel.
Joseph Peterson
I'll take your bait..
Drones aren't built by enlisted people. They're built by the best engineers money can buy at huge defense contracting corporations. Literally everything you wrote is completely false.
Alexander Harris
Wake me up inside if someone uses one to remodel Chicongo or Detgroid
Liam Thomas
Exactly.
This thread was meant for the goyim who would be inclined to think at the Hollywood programming level. A room full of terrorists aren't going to hack military UAVs. If anything, it will be an inside job or Israeli job. Maybe our greatest ally, Israel will sell the information to terrorists.
It's won't be some rogue group that figures out the encryption and bypasses all redundant systems.
