Nerds, drones, and zombies.

[AZhitman]

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/12 ... to-zombies

Progress, man. Like, whoa.

[themadscientist]

Hey government, all your drones are belong to us, b****.

[AZhitman]

That's EXACTLY what I was thinking.

[themadscientist]

Gearheads and computer geeks often have similar traits, they like a challenge and love to constantly tinker. People are going to be building their own drones in the coming years in greater numbers. Let's see them put the genie back in the bottle.

If I had something I really wanted to spy on that bad I would have built a drone by now, but I have a very underdeveloped voyeuristic gene. I just don't care what other people are doing. I expect other folks to do the same or I am going to use your drone for target practice no matter who's behind the controls.

[AZhitman]

If I had something I really wanted to spy on that bad I would have built a drone by now, but I have a very underdeveloped voyeuristic gene. I just don't care what other people are doing. I expect other folks to do the same or I am going to use your drone for target practice no matter who's behind the controls.

I'm pretty sure we're related.

Stay out of my backyard, and IDGAF what you do in yours.

I won't bother / pester / criticize you, and I'll expect the same consideration.

Violate that social contract, and the consequences will be swift, certain, and severe.

[Dattebayo]

All you have to do is put a large enough bit encryption on your device and rotate your frequencies out of a standard wi-fi pattern and hacking it becomes a moot point, not to mention that these delivery drones will most likely use Arduino boards with SIM card slots and operate on cell phone data networks instead (at least until the as-of-now only rumored 802.22 standard is developed and implemented). That's a whole different animal of hacking that would take some serious doing to complete.

The article was just meant to rattle some cages, I suspect.

[WDRacing]

Some people want to fly drones, others want automated turret defenses.

[AZhitman]

*PLINK*

Sorry 'bout your expensive toy there, Barry. You can have it back, but it's got dog slobber on it.

[Dattebayo]

It's pretty easy to make them use evasion tactics after losing one or more propellers... and some fools have started giving them the ability to shoot back.