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U.S. officials said Tuesday that another drone aircraft has mysteriously crashed, this time while on routine patrol around the small island of Seychelles, east of Africa.
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The crash in Iran whipped up speculation of a possible cyber-attack, after an Iranian official claimed they brought the drone down by hacking into it and commandeering the controls. Unnamed intelligence officials who spoke to reporters said that Iranian hackers could have accomplished the feat with the help of hackers in China or Russia, but theres no proof of that yet.
There were also reports back in October of a mysterious virus that had infected Americas drone fleet. Engineers said that it might just be common malware, but it kept coming back after they erased it from their systems.
The software contains a keylogger that may have been sending information to parts unknown over the Internet. Wired magazine noted that it had infected systems that handle both common information and classified materials.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/13/another-u-s-drone-mysteriously-crashes-this-time-in-seychelles/
saras
(6,670 posts)"There were also reports back in October of a mysterious virus that had infected Americas drone fleet. Engineers said that it might just be common malware, but it kept coming back after they erased it from their systems."
Yeah, it just kept coming back. All by itself. Every time they went to a porn site with Internet Explorer 6.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Why are we routinely patrolling there? Horny drone operators looking to catch a glimpse of nude sunbathers? No, couldn't be that. There must be some heretofore unpublicized existential threat to the United States lurking on that tropical resort! We would never, ever use these powerful surveillance weapons in a cavalier manner. Must be something else that needs to be routinely patrolled in the Seychelles.
EX500rider
(10,517 posts)...the Somali pirates go as far as the Seychelles looking for ships, that what the drones are there for, looking for pirate mother ships.