{"id":7457,"date":"2012-07-20T06:58:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T06:58:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T06:58:47","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7457","title":{"rendered":"Wired.com: &#8220;GPS Hijacking Catches Feds, Drone Makers Off Guard&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired.com: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/dangerroom\/2012\/07\/drone-gps-spoof\/all\/\">GPS Hijacking Catches Feds, Drone Makers Off Guard<\/a> by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On June 19, when University of Texas researchers successfully hijacked a drone by \u201cspoofing\u201d it \u2014 giving it bad GPS coordinates \u2013 they showed the Department of Homeland Security how civilian drones could fall into the wrong hands, exposing a potentially serious security flaw. It was exactly what Todd Humphreys, the lead researcher, anticipated in a TEDx talk in February: \u201cYou can scarcely imagine the kind of havoc you could cause if you knew what you were doing with a GPS spoofer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, a month after the experiment, the investigations panel of the House Homeland Security Committee held a hearing on how civilian drones could affect the security of the American airspace. \u201cThese findings are alarming and have revealed a gaping hole in the security of using unmanned aerial systems domestically,\u201d said Rep. Michael McCall, the panel\u2019s chairman. \u201cNow is the time to ensure these vulnerabilities are mitigated to protect our aviation system as the use of unmanned aerial systems continues to grow.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=7457\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}