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

[Jake]

On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, Joshua Juran wrote:
> Or have it self-destruct after landing, unless an authenticated override 
> has been received.  For maximum lulz, use a proximity sensor.

please dont glorify killing people here at noisebridge-discuss.  if you 
want to kill people thats really unfortunate, but please don't assume 
others here agree it would be "maximum lulz".

-jake


> 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
>