http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 22nd 2009 1:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/
Prepares for all the Paki jokes that are bound to appear shortly!!!]]>Oct 21st 2009 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fSpI4oZoDc]]>Oct 21st 2009 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 24th 2009 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/
It states Pakistan in the title...no joke.]]>Oct 21st 2009 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Um, The singer in that video is an Indian Sikh, nothing to do with Pakistan or Muslims... Seriously, that was bizarre

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So soldiers are now tagged, what if (given Android's open-source code) the system gets hacked, does it suddenly reveal every ones' location? for an easy sniping, perhaps?]]>Oct 21st 2009 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/
Android in my Nook sounds vaguely dirty. I like it.]]>Oct 21st 2009 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/
Idiot. How easily you forget 9/11 and who harbored those assholes.]]>Oct 21st 2009 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/
Well since I was deployed over there for a while, I don't think I'll be forgetting 9/11 anytime soon. ]]>Oct 21st 2009 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/
Crap! My bad dude, you weren't replying to me. My apologies, I get kinda cranky when this subject is brought up....]]>Oct 21st 2009 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/
I for one would rather have critical systems running on FOSS that is visible to millions of engineers across the globe who can and do find, fix and notify the rest of the world about security holes before they become an issue, than running on a closed source system where companies looking out for their own interests often keep such security holes secret, if they even succeed in finding them before the activities of hackers have already made them public.

As an example, how many years did it take the industry to come up with that DVD encryption system and how many days did it take that European kid to crack it? Once the algorithm was in the light of day, people all over the world pointed out how woefully inadequate it was. Meanwhile, OpenPGP is still quite secure and widely used.]]>Oct 21st 2009 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/
It is not like they are running Windows or something.]]>Oct 21st 2009 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/
i suspect that it's only seen as terrorism by the terrorists in those countries. also, they instigated it. we never would have gone to afghanistan without 9/11 or a similar attack. and there are still attacks being planned. i just saw on CNN about a thwarted attack to bomb Toronto. they started it, and they're not going to stop unless we end it.]]>Oct 21st 2009 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/
Also, if it weren't for oil, US would have never interfered. Man, you've got enough nukes to send this planet to another galaxy, yet you keep at climbing rocks in the piece of wasted land for years!

But again, this is slipping way too much OT, let's stop it here. We all have our own views on the matter, no need to argue about them, which would be pointless.]]>Oct 21st 2009 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/
Apparently there is.]]>Oct 21st 2009 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 7:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/
http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7545.ars

The Department of Defense says that open source and open standards will heavily increase the ability of the military to rapidly react to threats, as it is not locked down by proprietary bureaucracy, and the DoD can use its own army of coders to extend any OSS platform it needs to fit its exact needs. I think it is a good thing the people responsible for the defense of this country are realizing things everyone else did years ago. Looks like Android fit the bull for them.]]>Oct 21st 2009 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/
Our Verizon Droid is online!]]>Oct 21st 2009 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/
My question is, how long till a soldier roots one?]]>Oct 21st 2009 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/21/raytheon-deploying-android-powered-rats-on-battlefields-in-afgha/Oct 21st 2009 11:09AM