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

[Joshua Juran]

On Dec 21, 2011, at 7:58 AM, Joshua Carpoff wrote:

> The attack vector was on the Nav data. Making this more robust (or  
> less critical) is where the improvement is needed. One out-of-the  
> box idea might be to have some method of having the aircraft be  
> able to self-destruct in the air with no heavy objects (engine  
> block) remaining to fall to earth and hit something unintended?

Or have it self-destruct after landing, unless an authenticated  
override has been received.  For maximum lulz, use a proximity sensor.

It's also possible to destroy just the communications equipment  
without blowing up the entire plane.

Josh