According to the New York Times, insurgents in Iraq are using cheap satellite sniffing software to monitor the video feed coming from Drone fighter airplanes. This was discovered when laptops from captured insurgents were analyzed. The software they used is called Sky Grabber and costs only $26. It was designed to download music and movies off of satellite transmissions.
What's very disappointing with all this is that the Drones are not using encryption to secure the video feed. I've heard some reports that they aren't equipped to use encryption which if that's the case it's shameful. I don't see any good reason why we would want the insurgents to see the video data showing what the Drones are seeing. C'mon encrypt the data people!
Article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/world/middleeast/18drones.html?scp=1&sq=drone&st=cse
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