[ale] [OT] Virus in Raptor/Reaper operations

[Rich Faulkner]

Networked drone control stations wouldn't surprise me.  At Sirius-XM
(once XM Satellite Radio) the audio workstations that drive the studios
were networked (of course) but the new proprietary platform on which it
runs (Dalet Plus) allows any workstation to control any studio in the
enterprise (remote control).  I imagine that these UAV's use something
of the same thing for redundancy.  

As for half the states wanting UAV's like this...can you imagine...GHP
Raptor/Reapers cruising the interstate carrying Hellfire missiles to
enforce extreme speeders and HOV infractions?   


On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 15:43 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:

> Did you catch the followup (slashdot I think) yhat the virus may
> actually be the security tool they just installed.
> I don't know what wories me more, remote controlled flying weapons
> systems that run windows or the process that allows windows to be used
> for this AND doesn't provide status updates on security packages.
> I wouldn't want any OS on those things. Specialized code that is
> extremely limited in scope may cost more but will lack a pile of
> default security issues (while creating new ones, I'm sure).
> So the drone control workstations are networked and run some version
> of windows.
> And half the states want those things as well for various "needs"
> domestically.
> Ugh. 
> 
> 
> On Oct 10, 2011 3:19 PM, "Rich Faulkner" <rfaulkner at 34thprs.org>
> wrote:
> 
>         Found this of interest on CNN
>         
>         http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/10/tech/innovation/virus-hits-drone-fleet-wired/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
>         
>         The headline is (IMHO) sensationalized and likely blown out of
>         proportion but, the prevalence of Windows based systems in our
>         military infrastructure is most disturbing to me.
>         
>         RinL
>         
>         
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