[Scan-DC] Hacking drone video

[Charley Armstrong]

Not in this case, however.  The intercepted video was downlinked from the UAV to a ground terminal.  The technology is similar to what law enforcement helicopters can send to command posts, or what news helicopters send to their stations.  Except LE and some news organizations tend to encrypt there stuff.

CA
Annapolis

On Dec 17, 2009, at 11:24 PM, David I. Emery wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:00:46PM -0500, Andrew Clegg wrote:
>> I wonder if this involves a scanner, a discriminator tap, and some software?
>> 
>> http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/12/17/drone.video.hacked/index.html
> 
> 	Close, but no cigar.   
> 
> 	Signals are on satellites... not scanners.
> 
> 
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