Many times it was reported that US drones attacked civilians by a mistake and officials even apologized for the incidents, but this is more complicated than you can imagine.
Scientists from the University of Texas, Austin, used spoofing to get control over civil drone. Simply they replaced signal of the command satellite with their own and that allowed them to get full access to systems of drone. In sober fact there is no big difference in control of military or civil drones, so even encoded communication channels can be hacked as it already happened in some combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan where terrorists took the drones under their control and used them to attack another aims. I won't tell you what equipment you will need to gain control, but I can assure you its price is just some hundreds of dollars, so it's not a problem for any hacker to get it, of course if he knows what he will need. And it seems terrorists got the required knowledge...
And all these frequent 'incidents' when US drones attacked civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan happen all the time when Americans lose control over their combat drones. US military sidesteps these facts because of American weapons lobby because this way they conduct tests of combat drones and determine the weaknesses to be eliminated, while casualties among Afghani and Pakistani civilians are allowable costs. At long last, you know, not American civilians pay for it...
Scientists from the University of Texas, Austin, used spoofing to get control over civil drone. Simply they replaced signal of the command satellite with their own and that allowed them to get full access to systems of drone. In sober fact there is no big difference in control of military or civil drones, so even encoded communication channels can be hacked as it already happened in some combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan where terrorists took the drones under their control and used them to attack another aims. I won't tell you what equipment you will need to gain control, but I can assure you its price is just some hundreds of dollars, so it's not a problem for any hacker to get it, of course if he knows what he will need. And it seems terrorists got the required knowledge...
And all these frequent 'incidents' when US drones attacked civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan happen all the time when Americans lose control over their combat drones. US military sidesteps these facts because of American weapons lobby because this way they conduct tests of combat drones and determine the weaknesses to be eliminated, while casualties among Afghani and Pakistani civilians are allowable costs. At long last, you know, not American civilians pay for it...
