U.S Based Drones Can be Hijacked and Used as Missiles « Surveillance/spying

U.S Based Drones Can be Hijacked and Used as Missiles

by Greg Hedgepath on June 25th, 2012

This is article 301 of 561 in the topic Terrorism

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The potential consequences of GPS spoofing are nothing short of chilling. Humphreys warns that a terrorist group could match his technology, and in crowded U.S. airspace, cause havoc.

“I’m worried about them crashing into other planes,” he told Fox News. “I’m worried about them crashing into buildings. We could get collisions in the air and there could be loss of life, so we want to prevent this and get out in front of the problem.”

Unlike military UAVs, which use an encrypted GPS system, most drones that will fly over the U.S. will rely on civilian GPS, which is not encrypted and wide open to infiltration. Humphreys warns it is crucial that the government address this vulnerability before it allows unmanned aerial vehicles broad access to U.S. airspace.

“It just shows that the kind of mentality that we got after 9-11, where we reinforced the cockpit door to prevent people hijacking planes — well, we need to adopt that mentality as far as the navigation systems for these UAVs.”

Original story - http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/06/25/drones-vulnerable-to-terrorist-hija…