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The U.S. Drone Fleet Is Fully Infected By A Computer Virus
Business Insider ^
| Oct 7, 2011
| Robert Johnson
Posted on 10/07/2011 11:19:43 AM PDT by PapaBear3625
An unnamed computer virus is compromising the security of U.S. Reaper and Predator drones as they fly missions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, and Pakistan.
Wired reports the virus was found about two weeks ago and hasn't kept the drone pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from conducting missions.
There haven't been any reports of classified data breaches, but the virus has resisted the military's best efforts to remove it.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: computersecurity; corporate; drone; globalism; itsecurity; microsoft; predator; virus; windows
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To: PapaBear3625
To: PapaBear3625
One big vulnerability of relying on unmanned platforms: all it takes is a particularly nasty virus, and your air force is down. Or worse yet, your air force has suddenly become the enemy’s air force.
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posted on
10/07/2011 11:23:10 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(When you've only heard lies your entire life, the truth sounds insane.)
To: PapaBear3625
This is definitely going to go “Terminator” on us!
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posted on
10/07/2011 11:23:21 AM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: PapaBear3625
First I’d heard that they named a base after Creech. It’s in Nevada, so they won’t have to paint everything “Creech Brown,” because it already is.
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posted on
10/07/2011 11:23:48 AM PDT
by
gundog
(Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
To: Retired Greyhound
China?
Palestinian Sympathizer. Like the Ft. Worth shooter. Two weeks ago we poop on the Palistinian's bid for statehood. Now this takes out our ability to strike at the islamists. If China had this kind of capability they wouldn't want us to know they had it.
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posted on
10/07/2011 11:24:48 AM PDT
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: Retired Greyhound
China? ****
Nah, I think the drones were hit by the computer virus when the Commander-in-Chief was surfing for gay porn.
To: dead
The drones have become self aware. We have 20 minutes.
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posted on
10/07/2011 11:25:02 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
To: Retired Greyhound
China?That would be my guess. I don't believe we don't have virgin copies of this software so the next guess would be infected chips from...
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posted on
10/07/2011 11:25:09 AM PDT
by
TangoLimaSierra
(To the left the truth looks Right-Wing.)
To: PapaBear3625
I'm no Internet security guru, but my guess is that the attack came from within the military network. When you think of incidents like the Ft. Hood shootings and similar events, all it would take is one deranged soldier to wreck havoc on the system.
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posted on
10/07/2011 11:25:09 AM PDT
by
econjack
To: PapaBear3625
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posted on
10/07/2011 11:26:12 AM PDT
by
Semper911
(When you want to rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always have the support of Paul.)
To: PapaBear3625
Probably Obama has installed a few Muslim Czars in the drone program.
Seriously, too bad, because this seems to be one of the few elements in our defense forces that is still actively interested in damaging the enemy.
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posted on
10/07/2011 11:26:12 AM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius.)
To: econjack
One interesting aspect of this is that they are still using the software anyway.
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posted on
10/07/2011 11:27:03 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
To: PapaBear3625
Whats the matter with the military?Don’t they believe in using anti-virus programs? crying out loud.The NSA has enough programmers on it’s staff they should have the best anti-Virus software around.
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posted on
10/07/2011 11:27:32 AM PDT
by
puppypusher
(The World is going to the dogs.)
To: econjack
There are many many civilian contractors involved with these programs. Some of those contractors are Chinese.
They had a high level engineer on the B2 program who was feeding info back to China.
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posted on
10/07/2011 11:27:56 AM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: PapaBear3625
Open the bomb bay door drone.
Sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
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posted on
10/07/2011 11:28:14 AM PDT
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: puppypusher
They are required to have anti-virus. I doubt this is the normal malware found cruising the internet.
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posted on
10/07/2011 11:29:14 AM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Semper911
The real source of this story is Wired Magazine. There was a thread linking to Wired. It got pulled because we're not supposed to use Wired stories, so I looked for a non-Wired story.
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posted on
10/07/2011 11:29:25 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(When you've only heard lies your entire life, the truth sounds insane.)
To: PapaBear3625
Should have gone with the Apple iDrones.
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posted on
10/07/2011 11:29:31 AM PDT
by
OwenKellogg
(Raising Cain)
To: PapaBear3625
"Bad Mittens! No tuna tonight!"
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