Comment Re:So instead of leaking this to the news... (Score 1) 534
this is modded insightful? how would this work in practice? you can't just loop a video file of say 10 hours. anyone monitoring the signal would figure out in at most 20 hours that they've been a fake.
And how are you going to broadcast something that fits the current daylight and weather conditions to look sufficiently fake? You would be investing *a lot* of money to create something slightly believable, only to have the whole thing fall apart as soon as someone figures out the feeds they've been watching didn't match reality.
Mind you TFA mentioned they found days and days of intercepted video feeds. it's widespread apparently.
Again TFA mentioned that adding encryption would require hardware changes not only to the drones but also to the receiving equipment, which is also used by allies and in many diverse settings (thus different equipment types). adding encryption will thus require large structural changes, making it a slow and very costly process.