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This page 2 comment is making me not believe what I am reading. Data stream is not encrypted? Can anyone confirm?

The US military has reportedly been aware of vulnerabilities with pirating unencrypted drone data streams since the Bosnia campaign in the mid-1990s.

Top US officials said in 2009 that they were working to encrypt all drone data streams in Iraq, Pakistan, and Afghanistan – after finding militant laptops loaded with days' worth of data in Iraq – and acknowledged that they were "subject to listening and exploitation."

edit: fixed the format




Thanks for the link. Wow, I am surprised they didn't fix it so far.


I thought that the "unencrypted data streams" was video channel, not the control channel. Is that not true?


You are correct. As far as we know, the "unencrypted data" was just video, NOT control codes.




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