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Old Dec 17, 2009 | 11:59 AM
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The Drone Hackers

Amazing, our weapons are being used for reconnaissance for the enemy.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1261...?mod=yhoofront
 
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Old Dec 17, 2009 | 12:12 PM
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I saw that this morning! You would think that all the $$$ they spend on those "High Tech" weapons, that they would be encrypted, so you could not Hack into them!.....
 
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Old Dec 17, 2009 | 12:21 PM
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We can put a man on the moon...
 
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Old Dec 17, 2009 | 01:08 PM
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Whats ridiculous is the fact that the article states that the government has know about this flaw since Bosnia in the 1990's, you would think they would spend money to secure there investments in these things or are they just not realizing that the enemy is getting smarter which they never anticipated??
 
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Old Dec 17, 2009 | 01:15 PM
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It is hard to say what they think. I just say that there is no excuse for this.
 
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Old Dec 17, 2009 | 02:54 PM
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I saw that this morning! You would think that all the $$$ they spend on those "High Tech" weapons, that they would be encrypted, so you could not Hack into them!.....
Obama has been Commander in Chief for almost a whole year and he hasn't fixed this yet?
 
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Old Dec 17, 2009 | 02:58 PM
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Obama has been Commander in Chief for almost a whole year and he hasn't fixed this yet?
He has been too busy fixing your healthcare!......
 
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Old Dec 17, 2009 | 03:05 PM
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And receiving peace prizes for insert your guess!

In all seriousness, I'm sure the tech guys that support and develope this stuff never thought that a $26 device from bestbuy could actually do what ever it is that it does. I'm sure that a solution will arise relatively soon.
 
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Old Dec 17, 2009 | 03:33 PM
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That would be a heck of a surprise eh? Hopefully they can get this worked out quickly.
 
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Old Dec 17, 2009 | 03:48 PM
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Originally Posted by avfrog
We can put a man on the moon...
Which we did with less computing power than a modern day hand held calculator has.

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Old Dec 17, 2009 | 03:54 PM
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It is hard to say what they think. I just say that there is no excuse for this.
Thinking~ That is an art of the past. if people aren't spoon fed information~ it must not be true.
 
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Old Dec 17, 2009 | 05:21 PM
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Originally Posted by risupercrewman
He has been too busy fixing your healthcare!......
I can assure you he hasn't fixed that yet either!

I had pnemonia three months ago and my bills were astronomical! 1 emergency room visit and two follow-up visits to a doctor's office.

My wife and I pay $1600/month for healthcare insurance but the company said they didn't cover this, didn't cover that, I had to co-pay this, co-pay that...ended up costing me $1300 out of pocket for three chest x-rays (one to diagnose that I had pnemonia which is what I told them I had when I went in) and two follow up x-rays. In ER they gave me a shot of IV antibiotics and was written a prescription for antibiotics (insurance company said not covered). I had my blood pressure checked three times and talked to a doctor briefly three times. Oh, and one blood test.

Damn health insurance seems to think they are just there to take my monthly payments and confuse the billing situation and not actually pay for my healthcare. I'm a healthy individual noprmally, not over-weight (OK, maybe 10 lbs) and have looked around for a better deal but it's like all the companies that do business here are owned by each other. Oh, Rite-Aid charged $185 for 5 pills (antibiotics). I called another doc and got the prescription changed so it was only $40. My wife paid for the expensive pills with a CC and I told her to take them back and get a refund. No go. That's not healthcare, it's highway robbery!

So, now what has Obama been so busy fixing?
 
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Old Dec 17, 2009 | 05:36 PM
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Read about this a few minutes ago. Proves that no wireless system is impenetrable.
 
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Old Dec 17, 2009 | 06:46 PM
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Read about this a few minutes ago. Proves that no wireless system is impenetrable.
It doesn't prove anything of the sort.

The transmissions are UNENCRYPTED.
 
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Old Dec 17, 2009 | 06:52 PM
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Must have been using an old IB firewall.
 
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