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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 Sir Garlon on Thursday May 22 2014, @03:51PM

    by Sir Garlon (1264) on Thursday May 22 2014, @03:51PM (#46409)

    And presumably they're doing because the Iranians captured a US drone [wikipedia.org] by spoofing its GPS feed. They've had a couple of years to reverse-engineer and if I were them, I would be sharing all my tech data with my jihadi pals.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Angry Jesus on Thursday May 22 2014, @04:02PM

    by Angry Jesus (182) on Thursday May 22 2014, @04:02PM (#46423)

    > If I were them, I would be sharing all my tech data with my jihadi pals.

    The jihadis are sunni and Iran is shia. The jihadis won't even acknowledge that shias are muslims (kind of like how extremist born-again christians deny that catholics are christian, except they are about 100x bigger assholes about it). The chance of Iran co-operating with extremist sunnis is basically nil.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 22 2014, @08:26PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 22 2014, @08:26PM (#46522)

      On the other hand, Iran is probably signing a deal with Russia for eight nuclear reactors [en.ria.ru]. I wonder what Russia gets in return, besides an alliance with a perpetual thorn in the US' side.

      • (Score: 2) by Dunbal on Thursday May 22 2014, @09:54PM

        by Dunbal (3515) on Thursday May 22 2014, @09:54PM (#46548)

        Oil and access to the Middle East/India over land through a couple friendly 'stans (and of course Georgia now they've been put in their place).