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DARPA Unveils Hack-Proof Drone

posted by martyb on Thursday May 22 2014, @12:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the hack-me-if-you-can dept.

AnonTechie writes:

DARPA Unveils Hack-Proof Drone:
The Pentagon's Defense Advance Research Project Agency (DARPA) unveiled a new drone built with secure software that prevents the control and navigation of the aircraft from being hacked. The program, called High Assurance Cyber Military Systems(HACMS), uses software designed to thwart cyber attacks.

It has been underway with DARPA for several years after originating at the University of California, San Diego and the University of Washington, said Kathleen Fischer, HACMS program manager for DARPA. "The software is designed to make sure a hacker cannot take over control of a UAS. The software is mathematically proven to be invulnerable to large classes of attack," Fisher said.

See the HACMS Open Catalog for access to publications and software that comprise the system, much of which is available as open source.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by Woods on Thursday May 22 2014, @12:54PM

    by Woods (2726) <woods12@gmail.com> on Thursday May 22 2014, @12:54PM (#46344) Journal

    I was just thinking that. I forget who did it, but some company had released a major improvement to their DRM along with an article about how awesome it was, and within maybe a couple of hours, someone had released a crack for the DRM.

    I cannot recall who or what it was, but I am sure someone here could name it.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by tynin on Thursday May 22 2014, @01:06PM

    by tynin (2013) on Thursday May 22 2014, @01:06PM (#46356) Journal

    Ubisoft and their uber-DRM release back in 2010.

    http://torrentfreak.com/ubisofts-uber-drm-cracked- within-a-day-100304/ [torrentfreak.com]

    Of course, their are a few other similar examples. But this was cracked so fast, it made me wonder if it was an inside job with someone that knew the code but had moral issues with it.