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Activist Post
As drone surveillance ramps up worldwide, there is a new threat from above with massive potential to wreak havoc: the Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform drone.* This modified military drone was put together from parts legally obtained on the Internet by two hackers, Rich Perkins and Mike Tassey, who presented their work at a Black Hat conference back in August.
The on-board technology of the 14-pound drone has the ability to invade any wireless network, Bluetooth, or GSM, and wiretap, steal data, corrupt the network, or even shut it down completely. Additionally, the creators pointed out that it can carry a 20-pound payload which raises the possibility of biological or radiological attacks.
But does this latest announcement reveal a weak spot in national security, or is it simply propaganda to usher in stricter Internet and communication controls with even more funding for the military-industrial complex to combat this "new" threat?.
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The technology is implied to be something new that the bad guys can get us with, but the reality is that the American government itself has been deploying the same full spectrum of surveillance and tracking against its own citizens for decades. Sorry to break the news, but this is not a case of you could be the victim; you have been the victim for some time now.
Let's look at the stated capabilities of this new superweapon and match it up to what we already know about the American government's ability to track, trace and database its own population and take over communications at will. Please check the "checks" to learn more:
- Hack your personal information (check)
- Monitor your private phone calls (check)
- Read your private e-mails (check)
- Spoof cell phone towers (check)
- Break down firewalls (check)
- Jam cellular frequencies causing denial of service (check)
- Disrupt and manipulate Wi-Fi signals (piece of cake; you can do it to your neighbor - check)
- Tracking your every move (check)
We know that the new narrative from Homeland Security is one where disgruntled lone nuts are a bigger threat than al Qaeda. This narrative is fully reinforced by the hacker drone scenario, as presumably any malcontent can just go online, buy some parts, and reproduce a drone that the military spends tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars each to create, then make it operational and shut down entire zones of communication. The fact is that anyone can already buy an R/C airplane, but who has the technical skills and the massive databases of Echelon and the resources of the NSA's entire surveillance network to truly pull off the cataclysm suggested here? Only people like these two paid contractors and the government they are in bed with.
It is far more likely that this new worry of being hacked from above is nothing but a publicity stunt being used to divert awareness away once again from the true culprits in the surveillance and tracking game -- that being well-funded and provably ruthless state operators like the creators of the Stuxnet Virus, for example -- and place it squarely upon the non-existent shoulders of another lone bogeyman yet to be determined.
* This project was recently renamed "Project Vespid" due to a lawsuit initiated by drone warriors AeroVironment who have their own WASP drone.
Sources for this article:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-hacker-drone-airborne-cyber.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20088180-281/wireless-drone-sniffs-wi-fi-bluetooth-phone-signals/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhFrbSZEjTg&feature=player_embedded
http://rabbit-hole.org/
Hat Tip to Zen Gardner from Before It's News
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11 comments:
Soon we'll have to look over our shoulders before we think - especially if some scientist in a military complex somewhere is trying to develop electronics that can pick up brainwave patterns,thus indicating whether the target has a passive, aggressive or reactionary mindset. Such technology is only sci-fi until it is developed, and I bet they're already onto it.
Post script - Perhaps with principles similar to radar, they could emit beams at the frequencies of human brainwaves then measure the distortion or absorption of the returned waves. Maybe they could tell if you operate on the 'Huh?' or the 'Duh!' wavelength, and that's always handy.
Actually, the NSA can already "read" brainwave patterns. There is a federal lawsuit about it, with full details and claims online. It checks out. Your fears are already behind the reality of military capabilities.
The biggest problem I see here in America as well as the rest of the world is the inability to think independently. . Screw these two nerds and their home-made drone. . Please guys try doing something productive to assist your fellow humans for a change...
My question is why make something like this when you could just as easily made something to interfere with the govt surveillance. . Why do hackers always develop "viruses" to mess with other "average" people. . or is that the case at all? It is individual "hackers" or are the working for the govt, or better yet. . "anti-virus" manufacturers? Get my drift? I may sound paranoid, but accept what someone else tells you. . look into it for yourself. . If you are coming to this web site you obviously are, or I'd like to think you are. .
The whole purpose of this project is:
DARPA - finds geniuses and crazy people - gives them a blank check for lab, people and supplies. they have 2-5 years to produce a product or service.
When RPGs finally reach America's shores, the game will finally change.
This will totally blow your mind, but you don't even need a plane to do this!
But of course. It's jist yo' gubmit in action. If y'all didn't have a gubmit to do the murdering, who would murder for y'all? Yore gubmit is murdering fo' y'all so that y'all don't have to do it. Basically, it's like this: if you wanted to commit a burglary, for instance, but did not want to do the work, yourselves, you might want to hire a professional burglar, right? That's all you are doing here, you are hiring professional murderers to murder foreign citizens in your behalf. Only question is: why do y'all want to murder anybody?
Eastcoastghost is correct there are a number of projects worldwide which are working on the ability to read brainwaves from a distance.
Another thing, if you call your phone company to see if your phone is being monitored, they are under no legal obligation and will not tell you (I asked).
Yawn. Nothing that hasn't been possible for many years. Just another excuse to create a police state.
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