{"id":11998,"date":"2016-05-02T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/?p=11998"},"modified":"2017-09-24T08:06:12","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T12:06:12","slug":"hacking-armed-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/hacking-armed-drones\/11998\/","title":{"rendered":"Drones armed with guns, chainsaws and vulnerabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past few years drones have evolved from toys to powerful tools that can be used by pretty much everybody. Armies use them for scouting<\/a> and aerial spotting, coast-guards \u2014 as coastal patrol. When it comes to mapping the accident site and locating victims lifeguard sends drones ahead. Unmanned flying vehicles disarm old mines<\/a>, trace poachers and even spy on the famous Area 51<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Quad-, hexa- and other multi-copters nowadays can be purchased for next to nothing. This cost brings up a lot of privacy concerns. Small wonder, as drones could fly everywhere and record almost everything their owner wants them to! As soon as everybody understood that it\u2019s rather hard and almost useless to spy after the neighbors<\/a> with the help of average consumer drones some fears subsided.<\/p>\n

People started entertaining themselves. For example, they attached different things like chainsaws<\/a> and guns<\/a> to their drones; and \u2014 of course \u2014 published videos of their experiments on YouTube, gathering \u201cLikes\u201d and attention. Nevertheless, unmanned flying vehicles are still considered to be dubious technology. For example, this year hunters from Pennsylvania held a robust discussion<\/a> whether is it legal and fair game to hunt animals using drones.<\/p>\n

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Are #drones<\/a> as scary as they seem? https:\/\/t.co\/6jqha7bonz<\/a> #security<\/a> #privacy<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/N4Puv6NRZ0<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Kaspersky (@kaspersky) January 6, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n