What $39 Linksys Routers and $12 Million Drones Don’t Have in Common
In one of the most remarkable stories involving Information Security 
I have read in a while … insurgents used $29 software to monitor the video feeds coming from our drones (and we wonder how Bin Laden is still standing upright?)
To be clear … drones which cost as much as $12M apiece don’t encrypt their video feeds.
So think about this: my son’s XBox Online “Modern Warfare” traffic is encrypted but our military’s “real warfare” traffic isn’t? Now that’s scary …
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