Access to "left, right" is pretty bad when you are turning a drone packed with explosives around. However I'd hope the arming password is stored on a one time pad rather than the computer...
A keylogger is now a dangerous virus? what type of information are the writers of this keylogger going to get? "up, up, up, left, fire at target" (Obviously simplified).
Key loggers don't actively do anything, they just sit back and record data. it's not so much "OHH NO, THE TURURISTS ARE GOING TO TAKE OVER THE DRONES" as it is, "gee, now they know how to fly a remote control plane..." is it a threat? sure! it's a data leak and a rather large one. But running around with these sensationalist headlines makes it sound like they may be coming to a city near you with hackers controlling them.
right, and if this "virus" gave them the capability to turn a UAV around, it would be a different story. But all they are doing is seeing what commands are sent to the drone, they can't modify the commands, only watch them. this key logger in no way gives them any control over the drone. As far as the arming passwords, these may be unmanned drones, but they are still controlled by someone on the ground (I have a friend that does it). I would imagine the same process for firing from a fighter jet would apply to firing from a UAV.
You don't make a keylogger without some way to get the "keys" out of the log. This means command and control functions, possibly some updating functions and possibly a backdoor into the system. A shell for remote usage takes about three times as much in code as you wrote above in your post. Trivial to insert.
Things can/will get out of hand very quickly considering we have remote control robotic aircraft that kill people. Why societies war against each other instead of working together baffles me because each party would have more freedom and more prosperity if we cooperated. The rise of the machines ends in nuclear apocalypse.
HumanWikiOct 12, 2011Buried
John Connor, from T3: "Skynet IS the virus."
zbeastOct 12, 2011Buried
As long as they don't start flying over my home and demand that I buy CIALIS Online
or else. I don't care.
Donuts4UOct 12, 2011Buried
"Abdul hurry up!"
"I am, I am"
"Make sure you don't explode it until it's gone over the base a few times Hamid"
... Meanwhile in Iraq
"Hey look guys"... EAT AT HASSAN'S.. best falafel in cities!
Donuts4UOct 12, 2011Buried
Access to "left, right" is pretty bad when you are turning a drone packed with explosives around. However I'd hope the arming password is stored on a one time pad rather than the computer...
diggumsmack83Oct 12, 2011Buried
A keylogger is now a dangerous virus? what type of information are the writers of this keylogger going to get? "up, up, up, left, fire at target" (Obviously simplified).
Key loggers don't actively do anything, they just sit back and record data. it's not so much "OHH NO, THE TURURISTS ARE GOING TO TAKE OVER THE DRONES" as it is, "gee, now they know how to fly a remote control plane..." is it a threat? sure! it's a data leak and a rather large one. But running around with these sensationalist headlines makes it sound like they may be coming to a city near you with hackers controlling them.
diggumsmack83Oct 13, 2011Buried
right, and if this "virus" gave them the capability to turn a UAV around, it would be a different story. But all they are doing is seeing what commands are sent to the drone, they can't modify the commands, only watch them. this key logger in no way gives them any control over the drone. As far as the arming passwords, these may be unmanned drones, but they are still controlled by someone on the ground (I have a friend that does it). I would imagine the same process for firing from a fighter jet would apply to firing from a UAV.
Donuts4UOct 13, 2011Buried
You don't make a keylogger without some way to get the "keys" out of the log. This means command and control functions, possibly some updating functions and possibly a backdoor into the system. A shell for remote usage takes about three times as much in code as you wrote above in your post. Trivial to insert.
dougrochfordOct 12, 2011Buried
Things can/will get out of hand very quickly considering we have remote control robotic aircraft that kill people. Why societies war against each other instead of working together baffles me because each party would have more freedom and more prosperity if we cooperated. The rise of the machines ends in nuclear apocalypse.
ileen4justiceOct 12, 2011Buried
Let's go back to seeing the whites of their eyes before we take them out -- killing made easy by drones, coming to a neighborhood near you.....