Submission + - Insurgents viewing US drone video feeds (flightglobal.com)
Gimble writes: Steven Trimble is reporting that although it has been found that insurgents in Iraq have been able to view Predator drone video feeds, the USAF doesn't think this is an issue.
Lt Gen David Deptula, USAF deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, says the hacked videos resulted in no "significant impacts" on operations and tactics and went on to say "What do you mean the 'compromise of the data', nothing is compromised. I want to get information out to the joint forces on the ground, you follow me? If someone does pick [the video feed] up and they don't know the context of how the information is being used, what's the compromise?"
The story originally broke in the Wall Street Journal as a "hack" where the insurgents were using a software package called SkyGrabber to capture the drone video downlink.
Apparently encrypting the downlink seems to escaped the manufacturer and the USAF as a possibility of keeping their tactical info out of the hands of insurgents.
Lt Gen David Deptula, USAF deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, says the hacked videos resulted in no "significant impacts" on operations and tactics and went on to say "What do you mean the 'compromise of the data', nothing is compromised. I want to get information out to the joint forces on the ground, you follow me? If someone does pick [the video feed] up and they don't know the context of how the information is being used, what's the compromise?"
The story originally broke in the Wall Street Journal as a "hack" where the insurgents were using a software package called SkyGrabber to capture the drone video downlink.
Apparently encrypting the downlink seems to escaped the manufacturer and the USAF as a possibility of keeping their tactical info out of the hands of insurgents.
