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'Hack-proof' drone revealed by Pentagon

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the Pentagon's research arm - the Defense Advance Research Project Agency (DARPA) - has unveiled a new drone which it claims to have built with secure software that can prevent control and navigation of the aircraft by hackers. (nakedsecurity.sophos.com) More...

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Musketeer1
Musketeer1 6
The Titanic was an unsinkable ship.
donhun1313
donhun1313 1
Exactly what I was thinking
SootBox
SootBox 5
We already have hack proof drones, put a pilot in em.
WithnailANDi
WithnailANDi 5
In a new initiative called HACD (pronounced "HACKED"), the Hacker Alert Challenge Drone, the Pentagon dares all hackers to try and take down the newest "hack-proof" drone.
sparkie624
sparkie624 2
Give me a break.. Hack Proof only means that it has not been hacked yet... Saying this only prompts someone to do it even harder...

Think about the old days of the 10 foot satelite dish... During the VC-II announcement that it was totally secure and unhackable they released the hack for it that anyone could do in minutes...
donhun1313
donhun1313 1
...seeks to create automatic defensive systems capable of reasoning about flaws, formulating patches and deploying them on a network in real time. By acting at machine speed and scale, these technologies may someday overturn today’s attacker-dominated status quo.

Wasn't this how SkyNet came into being???
isardriver
isardriver 1
i am sorry, but nothing is "hack-proof". right on ref HACD - inevitable

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