"The potential drone vulnerability lies in an unencrypted downlink between the unmanned craft and ground control. The U.S. government has known about the flaw since the U.S. campaign in Bosnia in the 1990s, current and former officials said. But the Pentagon assumed local adversaries wouldn't know how to exploit it, the officials said." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

Who made the decision to use an unencrypted link? That person should be fired, this is a military application! - Kenton

Once again, millions of dollars of high-tech military hardware gets defeated by a jerk with a laptop. - Steven Perez

Yeah, it makes no sense that they are doing this stuff in this day and age through an unencrypted link. Unbelievable. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

personally, I think there was a severe underestimation of the enemy. - mikepk