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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
The first thing that came to my mind was, "Why didn't they design the Predator with encryption hardware already installed?!!!"
I'm just saying -- my computer has better protection than a Predator's software does...
And how long will it be until they're shooting at us with our own drones?
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Reading up on it, these were designed in the early 90's, before encryption was common/cheap/understood real well. Looks like someone made the (horrendous) decision to not encrypt the last leg of the transmission to save on time/money/headaces. Bad, bad bad call. Hopefully they can be retrofitted cheap, this is a big deal.
These are 'only' insurgents right now - imagine the hell that could happen should we face a more technologically advanced enemy.
12-17-2009, 09:34 AM
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