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Even expensive police drones are easy to hijack, hacker says
Authorities shouldn't trust their UAVs too much, even if they're of the more expensive variety. Nils Rodday, a security researcher working for IBM, demonstrated at the RSA security conference in San Francisco how a high-tech, pricey police drone* can be hijacked. Someone with the skills can take over its controls from as far as a mile away, using only a laptop and a USB radio chip. According to Wired, Rodday discovered that it's possible to get in between a police/military quadcopter's controller module or "telemetry box" and its real pilot's tablet when he was a graduate student at the University of Twente in the Netherlands.
