{"id":428,"date":"2012-07-04T09:30:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T09:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/?p=428"},"modified":"2012-07-04T13:39:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T13:39:24","slug":"ability-to-hijack-civilian-drones-adds-new-concerns-to-uas-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/2012\/07\/04\/ability-to-hijack-civilian-drones-adds-new-concerns-to-uas-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Ability to &#8220;Hijack&#8221; civilian Drones adds new Concerns to the UAS Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the University of Texas recently demonstrated how a civiliam UAS can be easily &#8220;spoofed&#8221; by jamming\u00a0it with a fake\u00a0GPS signal.\u00a0Professor Todd Humphreys from Austin&#8217;s Radionavigation Laboratory concludes that, \u201cSpoofing a GPS receiver on a UAV is just another way of hijacking a plane,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Click the link below to read the exclusive Fox News report&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2012\/06\/25\/drones-vulnerable-to-terrorist-hijacking-researchers-say\/\" target=\"_blank\">Drones vulnerable to terrorist hijacking, researchers say<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Added 7\/3, Follow-up story by Lee Dye of ABC&#8217;s <em>Good Morning America<\/em>&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/hijacking-drone-uav-aircraft-texas-students-prove-hackers\/story?id=16699686#.T_N0cVuD7ng\" target=\"_blank\">Drone Aircraft Hijacked by Students in Test; Could Iran Do It?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rich Hanson<br \/>\nAMA Government and Regulatory Affairs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the University of Texas recently demonstrated how a civiliam UAS can be easily &#8220;spoofed&#8221; by jamming\u00a0it with a fake\u00a0GPS signal.\u00a0Professor Todd Humphreys from Austin&#8217;s Radionavigation Laboratory concludes that, \u201cSpoofing a GPS receiver on a UAV is just another way of hijacking a plane,\u201d Click the link below to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amagov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}