Posts Tagged ‘drones’
The International Drone Photography Contest
Dronestagram’s fourth annual International Drone Photography Contest didn’t feature photos of your next door neighbour’s garden, and you sunbathing in it. It actually had some pretty cool stuff, like Two Moo by LukeMaximoBell.
Spotter: International Drone Photography Contest
Posted: 9th, July 2017 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Drones can hack your lightbulbs from 1000 feet overhead
Drones can hack your lightbulbs. It’s true. It sounds mad to say it, granted. But it’s true. PC World reports on a cyber attack on your so-called smart bulbs:
Researchers were able to take control of some Philips Hue lights using a drone. Based on an exploit for the ZigBee Light Link Touchlink system, white hat hackers were able to remotely control the Hue lights via drone and cause them to blink S-O-S in Morse code.
The drone carried out the attack from more than a thousand feet away.
If they can blink for help, presumably they can also be turned off and on in, say, an attack by an enemy? The war-time command to “Put that light out” would be null and void if the enemy was controlling the things.
“There is no other method of reprogramming these [infected] devices without full disassemble (which is not feasible). Any old stock would also need to be recalled, as any devices with vulnerable firmware can be infected as soon as power is applied,” according to the researchers.
Apparently, the Israeli and Canadian researchers have informed Philips of the design flaw and it’s been “patched”.
Isn’t technology marvellous.
Spotter: iotWorm
Posted: 7th, November 2016 | In: Reviews, Technology | Comment
Video: human wasp makes drone helicopter in his garden
Drones are invasive. And now YouTuber user Gasturbine101 has managed to make them still more annoying by creating one that can fly him over your heads.
Called Swarm – aka The Manned Aerial Vehicle Multirotor Super Drone – the device is a load of pricey drones stuck together.
Hail the human wasp!
Posted: 9th, September 2015 | In: Technology, The Consumer | Comment
New Jersey Man Arrested For Shooting Neighbour’s Spy Drone
TO New Jersey, where a man has taken badly to being spied upon. He used a shotgun to shoot down his neighbour’s drone.
The droner was using his spy in the sky to check out a nearby home undergoing renovations.
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Posted: 6th, October 2014 | In: Technology | Comment (1)
Paul Rand drones on for 13 hours to stop King Obama
THE homepage of the BBC website has no mention of Republican US senator Paul Rand’s momentous filibuster. It’s buried on the Us section. Rand spoke for 13 hours to delay the nomination of White House counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan to the top job at the CIA. Questions abound about the possible use of drones against Americans. Using drones to fire on Americans would go against the sixth amendment – an American citizen’s right to a fair trial.
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Posted: 7th, March 2013 | In: Politicians | Comment