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Originally Posted by cosmicfish
Depending on the weapon, control system, and tactical situation, this can be a bigger issue than you think, and it will only get bigger as systems get more advanced.
Also consider that Iran was supposedly able to hack one of our drones recently - this is already starting to happen.
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We originally weren't even encrypting the data feeds from our drones back circa 2004 or so. We're in the infancy of the technology, and we're mostly fighting guys with cell phones and AK-47s, not people you generally have to take advanced ewar precautions against.
And there's a difference between someone claiming to be able to hack something and someone actually being able to hack it. Iran MAY have hacked a drone. Or it may have just have malfunctioned and tried to land somewhere mountainous.
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Originally Posted by cosmicfish
Hacking a drone isolated from human overseers is a lot easier than hacking a system where an unhackable human can literally pull the plug.
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It's easier, but even now with the technology in it's infancy it's not EASY. And the more computer controlled stuff is (which is more and more necessary to keep up with the Jones', combat effectiveness-wise) the less difference there is between what you can do when you hack a pilot's computerized flight controls or hack a computer's computerized flight controls.