[Noisebridge-discuss] Iran hacked US drone by spoofing GPS, jamming control signals

[Corey McGuire]

That is so weak!  This is what we pay billions of dollars for?  A kid with
a map, a clock, and a compass could figure out how to navigate with out GPS
and an ant can do it all with dead reckoning.  You mean to tell me a robot
that can store gigs of spy data can't compare it's previous flight path
with incoming GPS data?

Hey Swarmies!  What would you have done to prevent such a simple take over
of Military grade robotics?

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Jake <jake at spaz.org> wrote:

> read the whole story:
>
> http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2011/1215/Exclusive-Iran-hijacked-US-drone-says-Iranian-engineer-Video
>
> Using knowledge gleaned from previous downed American drones and a
> technique proudly claimed by Iranian commanders in September, the Iranian
> specialists then reconfigured the drone's GPS coordinates to make it land
> in Iran at what the drone thought was its actual home base in Afghanistan.
>
> "The GPS navigation is the weakest point," the Iranian engineer told the
> Monitor, giving the most detailed description yet published of Iran's
> "electronic ambush" of the highly classified US drone. "By putting noise
> [jamming] on the communications, you force the bird into autopilot. This
> is where the bird loses its brain."
>
> The "spoofing" technique that the Iranians used -- which took into account
> precise landing altitudes, as well as latitudinal and longitudinal data
> made the drone "land on its own where we wanted it to, without having to
> crack the remote-control signals and communications" from the US control
> center, says the engineer.
>
> ...
>
> Prior to the disappearance of the stealth drone earlier this month, Irans
> electronic warfare capabilities were largely unknown  and often dismissed.
>
> "We all feel drunk [with happiness] now," says the Iranian engineer. "Have
> you ever had a new laptop? Imagine that excitement multiplied many-fold."
> When the Revolutionary Guard first recovered the drone, they were aware it
> might be rigged to self-destruct, but they "were so excited they could not
> stay away."
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