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Hacked Drones: Why *manned* military aircraft are a good idea

I'm not blind to the benefits of drones, and I'm not blind to the sobering realities of aerial survivability in the early moments of a conflict with a modern military. But, as this Wired article demonstrates, we can't let ourselves think that we can rely entirely on joystick-wielding Nintendo jockeys either.

I think this will be revealed as only the tip of the iceberg with regards to the way these drones can be exploited. Security pro-tip, kids: if you can access and control something from remote, so can the other guy, it's just a matter of how long it takes him to figure out how to do it.

So, it seems to me that maybe drones are like anti-biotics: the more you use them, and the more the enemy gets to learn about them, the less effective and more dangerous they become.