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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 23 2014, @10:56PM
The problem is, when journalistic sites with low standards, start loosely translating-
"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,"
as
"DARPA Unveils Hack-Proof Drone".
Seriously, aren't we a more tech-savvy community than that? Please folks, let's raise our standards of actually using words related to cyber-security popularly. The NSA has been diseducating the masses for 10 years, and this sort of horseshit is seriously not helping fix the problem.