Drone hijacked by UT hackers with $1,000 spoofer

Re:Drone hijacked by UT hackers with $1,000 spoofer by ARobotics on Saturday July 07, 2012 @03:08PM (#4212413)

I know the title here is the same as the article, but why the heck did sophos choose "Texas college" for the something done by the University of Texas? I assumed from the title it was done by some small school somewhere in Texas, not UT.

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Re:Drone hijacked by UT hackers with $1,000 spoofer by tzs on Saturday July 07, 2012 @03:58PM (#4212545)

UT is in the top 30 on the Times Higher Education world university rankings: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-ranki...

They are #13 on the list of world rankings of engineering schools: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-ranki...

By saying "Texas college", it makes it sound like some random second or third tier school did it. That's much more sensationalistic as it can easily give the casual reader the impression that pretty much anyone can easily hack these drones. If they said a team from a top engineering school did it, it would not frighten people because that's the kind of thing you EXPECT people from top engineering schools to be able to do.

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Re:Drone hijacked by UT hackers with $1,000 spoofer by dctoedt on Saturday July 07, 2012 @03:26PM (#4212460)

Amen! I had exactly the same reaction. (Disclosure: I'm an alumnus, twice.)

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Re:Drone hijacked by UT hackers with $1,000 spoofer by StacyC on Saturday July 07, 2012 @06:37PM (#4212944)

Hook 'em Horns!

Sorry, conditioned response from this alum.

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Re:Drone hijacked by UT hackers with $1,000 spoofer by gonzo on Sunday July 08, 2012 @01:27AM (#4213751)

the wife says, "Go Pokes!" :-)

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Re:Drone hijacked by UT hackers with $1,000 spoofer by xmmx on Saturday July 07, 2012 @03:21PM (#4212443)

There is only one school in texas worth knowing about.

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Re:Drone hijacked by UT hackers with $1,000 spoofer by Cyranix on Saturday July 07, 2012 @05:34PM (#4212801)

... Rice University?

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Re:Drone hijacked by UT hackers with $1,000 spoofer by RegEx on Saturday July 07, 2012 @03:36PM (#4212486)

Texas College is actually a low-quality college in my town. I was very, very confused for a few seconds.

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