Yup, and YOUR TAX DOLLARS are PAYING FOR IT ALL, American!!!
Don't you just LOVE the LIE$ of WAR!!!!!
"US awash in drone data" by New York Times | January 11, 2010
HAMPTON, Va. - As the military rushes to place more spy drones over Afghanistan, the remote-controlled planes are producing so much video intelligence that analysts are finding it more and more difficult to keep up.
I KNOW the FEELING of WADING through BULLS***, that's for sure!!
Air Force drones collected nearly three times as much video over Afghanistan and Iraq last year as they did in 2007 - about 24 years’ worth if watched continuously.
And Iraq is supposed to be WINDING DOWN?
That volume is expected to multiply in the coming years as drones are added to the fleet and as some start using multiple cameras to shoot in many directions.
Related: Tools of Tyranny: Eye of the Gorgon
A group of young analysts already watch every second of the footage live as it is streamed to Langley Air Force Base in Virginia and to other intelligence centers, and they pass warnings about insurgents and roadside bombs to troops in the field. But military officials also see much potential in using the archives of video collected by the drones for later analysis, such as searching for patterns of insurgent activity over time.
Yeah, but they are going to through out the airport image....
They NEVER THROW AWAY a THING, America!!
When are you going to WAKE UP to THAT LIE!!!!?
After all, YOU are PAYING FOR IT!!!!
To date, only a small fraction of the stored video has been retrieved for such intelligence purposes.
Government agencies are still having trouble making sense of the flood of data they collect for intelligence purposes, a point that was underscored by the 9/11 Commission and, more recently, by President Obama after the attempted bombing of a Detroitbound passenger flight on Christmas Day.
Oh, can't you just SMELL the AGENDA-PUSHING S***?
That is why I LIKE POSTING EVERYDAY!!
DO UNTO the MSM as THEY DO UNTO YOU!!!!!!
Mindful of those lapses, the Air Force and other military units are trying to keep from becoming overloaded with video collected by the drones, and they are turning to the television industry to learn how to quickly share video clips and display a mix of data in ways that make analysis faster and easier.
Well, that will only add more s*** to the scene!
The demand for the Predator and Reaper drones has surged since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and they have become one of the key weapons for hunting insurgent leaders and protecting allied forces.
And for committing MASS MURDER!!!!
The military relies on the video to catch insurgents burying roadside bombs and to find their houses or weapons caches.
Yeah, right, they are just flying up there harmless.
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And about those VIDEOS:
WASHINGTON - The military has known about the vulnerability for more than a decade, but assumed adversaries would not be able to exploit it.
Then....
OOOOOPS!
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the military continually evaluates the technologies it uses and quickly corrects any vulnerabilities found.
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Actually, that's ANOTHER MILITARY LIE!!!
The same security weakness that allowed Iraqi insurgents to record video from unmanned US surveillance aircraft might also have let them spy on American battlefield robots produced by a local firm....
The US military has purchased more than 3,000 Talon robots. Many are used for video surveillance patrols in Iraq and Afghanistan. Qinetiq officials said the security hole was plugged in 2007, when Talons received upgraded video equipment. Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that laptop computers belonging to captured Iraqi insurgents contained video images from US surveillance drones. The insurgents had used TV receiving gear and a cheap piece of software purchased on the Internet to record unencrypted video from the aircraft.
Then WHAT is with the DOMESTIC TYRANNY, huh?
They CAN'T EVEN PROTECT their OWN STUFF!!
There’s no evidence that enemy forces actually tapped into video feeds from the Talon robots.
Would you tell us if they had?
But Eric Rosenbach, executive director of research at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, expressed surprise that the military would ever transmit battlefield data over an insecure channel....
Well, if YOU are "terrorists" then there is NOT MUCH TO WORRY ABOUT, is there?
Instead, the change was a consequence of the military’s efforts to reduce the terrible toll inflicted on US troops by roadside bombs in Iraq. Many of the bombs were detonated remotely by radio transmitters such as cellphones. The US Army responded by deploying Talon robots along key roadways to seek out the bombs and by equipping supply convoys with powerful radio jammers. The jammers created a sort of electronic bubble around the convoy, so that nearby radio-controlled bombs could not be detonated....
Bob Quinn, Qinetiq’s vice president of Talon robot operations, said that there was never any risk that an enemy hacker could have taken command of a Talon, because the robot’s remote control system has always used an encrypted digital radio system. Letting a Talon come under enemy control could have deadly consequences, as some are equipped with remotely-controlled machine guns.
But just being able to see surveillance video could be very useful to an enemy. “It gives them the ability to know where and how the US is surveilling targets,’’ said Rosenbach. For instance, an insurgent could use intercepted video to warn his comrades that one of their “safe houses’’ was actually being watched by the Americans. The US military has purchased thousands of robots from another Massachusetts company, iRobot Corp. of Bedford.
See: War Looter's Wednesday: Peering Into the Future
Like the Qinetiq Talon, iRobot’s PackBot is frequently equipped with video cameras for surveillance work. But the company won’t say whether its video feeds are encrypted. IRobot spokeswoman Nancy Dussault-Smith said the company “does not comment on communications security or other operational security topics.’’
Answer: no
Maybe that's how they compromised the base, huh?
Hackable Drones, Crumbling Empire
What happens when global resistance forces get a handle on the game America and their allies are playing and begin leveraging the weaknesses of such systems, not of least of which are the ideological blind spots plaguing their developers, into a wholly subversive high-tech détournement in a bid to level the playing field? But as Graham points out, the "often wild and fantastical discourses" of high-tech military theorists have run into a brick, not a silicon, wall: the will to resist.
All that money wasted!
Those "insurgents" don't need to SEE PAST VIDEO; they KNOW where they have been!!!!
