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[theweaselking]

Predator "hacked" with cheap OTS software.

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[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

Generally, "security by obscurity" doesn't work when the secure asset is drawing attention to itself... with Hellfire missiles, for instance.

-- Steve can't believe that the Pentagon, of all people, didn't think others would be able to intercept an unencrypted video signal. (I think they're calling it "TV" now, General.)

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

The Pentagon didn't build this. General Atomix built the Predator on its own dime and then presented it to the DoD as a finished product.

[krinndnz.livejournal.com]

Oh for fuck's sake. Amateur-hour bullshit. This is the sort of thing that makes me hope John Robb is right and the era of massive states is over.

[skiriki.livejournal.com]

The IT person and technophile in me is convulsing with laughter.

[pyroofone.livejournal.com]

Wow. My wireless router has better security than these things it seems. Amusing!

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

Surely - as is the argument with Gary McKinnon - if there is no security then there is no hacking?

An open signal is not hackable. There's nothing to hack. It's a bit bloody stupid complaining that people are looking in through your very big, brightly lit open window.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Hence why "hacked" is in quotes.

I quite like Danish law - case law there holds that breaking ineffectual DRM is by definition not a crime, and that the definition of "ineffectual" is "can be broken".

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

*nods* I am quite definitely agreeing with you.
Clearly the Danes [much like their Norwegian friends] are on to something with this whole 'sensible' lark

this whole new cost saving approach - spend billions on hardwear, then don't secure it - is really getting quite funny.