Failing again. Failing better.
A while back, I wrote about the X-37B’s nine-month mission to space and it’s possible uses. It looks like the X-37B’s mission just got extended. NASA’s shuttles used fuel cells, but the X-37B is powered by a deployable solar array. This was supposed to give the craft a nine-month mission length, instead of the 2.5…
Wired’s Danger Room blog recently posted an article about the U.S. Air Force’s “Micro Aviary” at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. There, the USAF has equipped a room with very sensitive motion-tracking sensors capable of tracking drones within a tenth of an inch. Researchers are using this capability to build and test micro drones…
Earlier this month, Wired’s Danger Room blog covered the computer virus infecting the U.S. drone program (my commentary is here and here). Danger Room continues to cover what, to me, is increasingly looking like a cover up of sloppy cyber security and its consequences. Danger Room reported here that officials at Creech Air Force Base…
Last week I discussed an article by Noah Shachtman of Wired’s Danger Room that examined a virus infecting U.S. drones. It looks like there might be other vulnerabilities facing the program as well. Cyberwarfare expert Jeffrey Carr first looks at unencrypted mission control data feeds. Not only are the video feeds unencrypted (as mentioned in…