Israel Encrypted Drone Data Following UK Spying

[Zarvan]

Israel appears to have increased encryption across its drone fleet following spying by the UK as part of a US National Security Agency (NSA) led snooping program using a method similar to that used to protect the signals of subscriber-only TV channels.

Israel also expanded encryption or scrambling of the feeds grabbed by UK's intelligence analysts based in the Greek Troodos mountains, showing up like the black-and-white snow on a TV screen.

The Intercept report published last Saturday cited UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) Anarchist training manuals from 2008, analysts took snapshots of live signals and would process them for “poor quality signals, or for scrambled video.”

Anarchist is a codename used for a classified spying program by the GCHQ along with NSA.

Several of the snapshots, a subset collected in 2009 and 2010, appear to show drones carrying missiles. Although they are not clear enough to be conclusive, the images offer rare visual evidence to support reports that Israel flies attack drones — an open secret that the Israeli government won’t acknowledge.

“There’s a good chance that we are looking at the first images of an armed Israeli drone in the public domain,” said Chris Woods, author of Sudden Justice, a history of drone warfare. “They’ve gone to extraordinary lengths to suppress information on weaponized drones.”

The Intercept published a selection of drone images on its website.

According to the report, Anarchist operated from a Royal Air Force installation in the Troodos Mountains, near Mount Olympus, the highest point on Cyprus.

http://www.defenseworld.net/news/15215/Israel_Encrypted_Drone_Data_Following_UK_Spying#.Vq86ECNRXqA

 

[Tshering22]

Looks like Israelis will come back with something on this.

Their mutual dislike with the Brits is well known in the political arena.

 

[DavidSling]

On the subject of spying on Israeli UAVs, also revealed by Snowden, the source said the Americans know full well what Israel has and that they were spying on the drones at a time when communications between the aerial vehicles and the ground stations was not encrypted. “Today it would be much harder for any intelligence service to spy on the Israel UAVs broadcasts.”

In recent years the UAVs were equipped with spy-proof communications channels.

Source: https://defence.pk/threads/why-woul...en-it-is-a-part-of-them.420211/#ixzz3yweTmfDi

Anyhow, those images are from around 2009, when Israel drones wasn't encrypted as good if at all in that time.
I know from several sources that drones in the IDF get encrypted channels cause of past accidents.

 

[mike2000 is back]

Their mutual dislike with the Brits is well known in the political arena.

LOL Is it??
This news tells nothing new we dont already know. Every country spies on others.