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Re:DJI Puts $145K Bounty on the Drone Pilots Who Were Disrup... by hammock on Thursday April 27, 2017 @10:29AM (#14211686)
Wouldn't a (easy?) solution for a bounty hunter be to exploit a security vulnerability in the drone to track the drone & user?

Or DJI could track these drones themselves from the mothership, uploading the day's GPS history every time they call home... not sure if/why they don't already do this. Would eliminate much of the need for a bounty.

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Re:DJI Puts $145K Bounty on the Drone Pilots Who Were Disrup... by balabaster on Thursday April 27, 2017 @10:52AM (#14211918)
Couldn't they send a drone to dock with the mothership, upload a virus that filters down to all the child drones, set off a nuclear bomb and then escape quickly enough to watch the pieces fall in a fiery wreck to the runway?

"Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in this history of mankind..."

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