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A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America's Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots' every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other war zones.
The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military's Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source. But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech's computers, network security specialists say. And the infection underscores the ongoing security risks in what has become the US military's most important weapons system.
"We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back," says a source familiar with the network infection, one of three that told Danger Room about the virus. "We think it's benign. But we just don't know."
The NSA was too busy reading your little sister's diary to fix it.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 11 2017, @01:19PM (8 children)
I think this is an old article dating back to 2011...
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Wednesday October 11 2017, @03:03PM (3 children)
I know Soylentnews is often slow in posting stories, but this is ridiculous!
(Score: 3, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday October 11 2017, @07:10PM (2 children)
I said it yesterday: the singularity is near. Eth is posting rational things, runaway is practically sounding like a hippie, and any moment now jmorris is gonna declare we should all go vegan. Is it any surprise the RSS bot didn't kick this out until now?
Anyway i hadn't heard it before so it was news to me...
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Thursday October 12 2017, @01:42AM (1 child)
If TMB abandons his right-wing principles, then we will know that the apocalypse is here.
(Score: 2) by LaminatorX on Thursday October 12 2017, @02:14AM
Give it time. As the Right keeps hurtling farther and farther out, he'll become a moderate just by standing fast.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Wednesday October 11 2017, @03:51PM
I can't seem to fine any followup indication the problem was ever fixed or even further ecplored.
Hard to say if that means it's ongoing or if it's just worthless 'journalists' with no ability to follow up.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday October 11 2017, @04:53PM
The 666 crew failed!
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 11 2017, @05:47PM
A virus prevented it from showing up until now.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 12 2017, @03:41AM
You're doing it wrong. You're not supposed to look at the article!