"Senior defense and intelligence officials said Iranian-backed insurgents intercepted the video feeds by taking advantage of an unprotected communications link in some of the remotely flown planes' systems. Shiite fighters in Iraq used software programs such as SkyGrabber -- available for as little as $25.95 on the Internet -- to regularly capture drone video feeds, according to a person familiar with reports on the matter."
- Steven Perez
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Given that a large portion of the military is still using Windows Vista, the fact that they got hacked surprises me not.
- Steven Perez
That should come in handy, given that SkyGrabber's website has been down for a while. :D
- Steven Perez
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