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Mountain out of a molehill.  I agree.
If a UAV can be hijacked by the "enemy" , the easiest solution is to  
quit using UAVs.
( Except for reconnaissance and everyone should have that .... sharing  
was taught to me in primary school  )
Anyone who flies  "attack" UAV missions against individuals instead of  
conducting ground missions and
definitively  determining that they are the enemy ..........   is a  
gutless coward.
Gus


> On Dec 20, 2009, at 1:41 AM, Apptech wrote:
>
>> The article goes on to imply that encryption was intentionally turned
>> off to improve real-time multiple-viewer access to the video.
>>
>> Mountain out of molehill if you ask me...
>
> That fact that various 'customers' were found to have hours of video  
> on
> their laptops suggests otherwise.
>
> Knowing what a drone can see from how high, what sort of resolution of
> detail is available, viewing angle, zoom range optical/digital, loss  
> of
> definition with zoom, how fast does it zoom, does it pan, how fast  
> it can
> respond to a signal, how it responds to environmental conditions,  
> whether
> rain affects it, or snow or ..., what its dawn/dusk sensitivity is or
> whether it loses colour definition in low light, whether it loses  
> video lock
> or brain lock under various conditions, whether any video  
> alterations or
> commends have discernible signatures in the command string, what  
> sort of
> thing is of interest, what sort of standard patrol patterns it  
> flies, what
> it takes to distract it from station keeping or patrolling, what you  
> can see
> and is lands or takes off - or after and before these events,  does  
> it flare
> whn the camera is pointed sunwards and if so how much and how long,  
> do they
> tak care not to point the camera sunwards?,... and much more, would  
> be of
> immense value to some. Arranging for various dummy setups to be  
> visible in
> the field of view wold allow testing on what works and what doesn't.  
> Setting
> a trap to lure a drone within striking distance would be easier when  
> you can
> see what it can see.
>
> For extra points you MAY just be able to make an optical seeker that  
> uses
> the drones own video signal to direct a seeker to its target. Sure  
> beats
> having to design, build and fly your own.
>
>
>   R
>
> <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126102247889095011.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLETopStories 
> >
>
>
>
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