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Cyber Defense Systems' low-cost surveillance drone

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We officially don't condone using these for remotely stalking your latest crush, but a company called Cyber Defense Systems is trying to commercialize a line of low-cost battery-powered aerial surveillance drones similar to the unmanned aerial vehicles the US military currently uses in Iraq and Afghanistan that are simple enough to be operated by anyone who knows their way around a joystick (which pretty much equals 100% of our readership). They're aiming these primarily at law enforcement (a police force in Maryland already used one of the company's CyberBug UAVs to keep tabs on a recent "community event"), but they're also hoping that there'll be plenty of businesses (like power plants, contractors, TV stations, etc.) that'll want to use these, too.