This alternate submission from about the same time seems to have got the attention and discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3085004

My thought is to halt all drone operations until this is solved.

The possibility of a foreign entity taking control of one of these things is scary!

What's the over/under on it also being present on the machine they made the master image from?

This story is absolutely crazy. I am having serious trouble taking it at face value. But lets say the article is correct, it sounds like a root kit and they don't know how to remove it properly.

If this is Skynet I am going to be very annoyed.

The next Real war will have a large component of disrupting the enemies internet.

I say we take all the black hat hackers that are in prison now, and put them in rooms where they try to deface websites, crack into databases, control satellites etc etc. Then when they get into those databases, rather than punishing the hacker who figured out how to do it, you punish the entity that left themselves in a state where they could be hacked.

Making our country resistant and strong against the next online battles starts today, not when congress declares war against china in retaliation for their militaries occupying our country.