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Border patrol drones are vulnerable to GPS spoofing attacks

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency are reporting on incidents where drug traffickers have hacked unmanned air vehicles (UAVs, drones) in order to illegally and secretly cross the US-Mexican border.

UAVs have become a common presence in the US military, but they have also spread to other US law enforcement agencies like local police and border patrol.

Unlike their military counterparts, which cost millions of dollars, the drones used by other law enforcement agencies are much smaller, due to the smaller budgets allocated to the acquisition of such vehicles.

CBP drones are vulnerable to GPS spoofing attacks

Because of this, various standard drone modules had to be removed. One of them is a module that ensures the drone's security against a certain type of attack: GPS spoofing.

GPS spoofing is a trivial cyber-attack, which relies on sending GPS receivers fake GPS data.

Each UAV has a GPS receiver, used to receive data from off-orbit satellites and navigate along the border, watching for illegal crossers.

Drug traffickers have quickly figured this out, and using GPS spoofing techniques are sending UAVs wrong coordinates, made to look like coming from an authentic source.

The drone, receiving wrong coordinates, corrects course and leaves its normal patrol area, going to the section it thinks it should be at, based on the wrong coordinates.

Once the drone leaves the area of the GPS jammer&spoofing device, it then tries to correct again, going back to its proper patrol area. It follows this back and forwards process until it remains out of fuel and returns to base, or the traffickers safely crossed the border and turn off their jammers.

High cost of anti-spoofing equipment leaves drones exposed

The only way to prevent such scenarios from happening is by using anti-GPS-spoofing hardware within the drone's makeup.

As Michael Buscher, CEO of Vanguard Defense Industries told Defense One reporters, this is a very costly module, and also very bulky. Adding such equipment to a drone is not only very expensive but also affects the drone's flight time, something which both the DHS and CBP are not willing to accept.

Right now, the only way to plug these security holes is for the DHS to wait for technology to advance and cut down on its manufacturing prices. To accelerate this process, the DHS also started funding a series of research programs.

 

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the trump wall is not needed nor is any more money required for law enforcement...what is needed is for the army to take over patrol duties of the police and border patrols  so the police can go back to devoting 100% of their time to other crimes in stead of stopping a tiny insignificant percentage of illegal crossings on  specific area...id the army ever was actually properly patrol/defend the area.... crossings in that area  would drop   100% over night because they could tighten up that border so tight a fart could not get across...the political will is not there to do so...even by the showman/ three ring circus act that is donald trump....  

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45 minutes ago, dMog said:

the trump wall is not needed nor is any more money required for law enforcement...what is needed is for the army to take over patrol duties of the police and border patrols  so the police can go back to devoting 100% of their time to other crimes in stead of stopping a tiny insignificant percentage of illegal crossings on  specific area...id the army ever was actually properly patrol/defend the area.... crossings in that area  would drop   100% over night because they could tighten up that border so tight a fart could not get across...the political will is not there to do so...even by the showman/ three ring circus act that is donald trump....  

The border patrol  does a really poor job in the USA  a group  of vigilantes  are based  at  the Arizona border  catching the  drug  cartels mules and turning them over to the border patrol .  In Mexico  they also had vigilantes tell the Mexican government  got them to join in  with  there government .The Mexican government is paid off  by the cartels  so there no help at all.

 

As far as the Army doing such  on US soil  is against the law. The law  Is meant  to prevent  wars on US soil and marshall law

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The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385, original at 20 Stat. 152) signed on June 18, 1878 by President Rutherford B. Hayes. The purpose of the act – in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807 – is to limit the powers of the federal government in using federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States. It was passed as an amendment to an army appropriation bill following the end of Reconstruction,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act

 

There's rumors  about marshall law may come to the US in 2016  no telling with Obama in there.  

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The President may employ the armed forces... to... restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition

Only way  they could  bring in  the Army  if  the cartels was shooting  are something  but they use unarmed  people  they call mules  to ship in drugs  and humans too .

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holy crap steven   rumors from where what truly credible source not just the bullshite sites like infowars and other similar make believe this crap is real sites you so love to look at for your proof... and have you heard donald trump take about what he will do... talk about circumventing you constitution... and not one  frigging word from you or all the rest of the conspiracy nuts and whakos you get YOUR info from..to give  credit tho within weeks if nor hours  of any new president the conspiracy guys and you will be reporting whole hog about rumors, innuendo and just made up crap about whom ever will eventually win...because after all the new world order is the real power everyone who is president... and tip of the hat to  ambrocious...now that you are openly back...you know...there a re ton of sites out there that will eat your stuff up and call you the second coming for posting the stuff like this they believe is true like yo u post here ... why come to a place that  has 99.9 % of the members that look at you like you are  strange and misguided...unless you love to argue...in that case there are sites like that too...you have normal regular posts here... that is what this place is about  not conspiracy theory as for the marshal law... info wars and all them other bs places were telling us all that the american army was going to invade america recently and they had all the proof positive   just ask ambociois ...  or did the mere fact alex jones reported it save the day again ...as usual

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33 minutes ago, dMog said:

holy crap steven   rumors from where what truly credible source not just the bullshite sites like infowars and other similar make believe this crap is real sites you so love to look at for your proof... and have you heard donald trump take about what he will do... talk about circumventing you constitution... and not one  frigging word from you or all the rest of the conspiracy nuts and whakos you get YOUR info from..to give  credit tho within weeks if nor hours  of any new president the conspiracy guys and you will be reporting whole hog about rumors, innuendo and just made up crap about whom ever will eventually win...because after all the new world order is the real power everyone who is president... and tip of the hat to  ambrocious...now that you are openly back...you know...there a re ton of sites out there that will eat your stuff up and call you the second coming for posting the stuff like this they believe is true like yo u post here ... why come to a place that  has 99.9 % of the members that look at you like you are  strange and misguided...unless you love to argue...in that case there are sites like that too...you have normal regular posts here... that is what this place is about  not conspiracy theory as for the marshal law... info wars and all them other bs places were telling us all that the american army was going to invade america recently and they had all the proof positive   just ask ambociois ...  or did the mere fact alex jones reported it save the day again ...as usual

You have no idea of what you're talking about this info im talking about did not come from  info wars its from a real life documentary called Cartel Land

http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/movies/cartel-land-a-gripping-look-at-vigilantes-in-mexican-drug-war/

 

You can watch it for you're self you don't live in the USA So you don't realize we have all kinds of radical  groups  that exist  in all most  every state. You  don't know nothing  about  the USA  you're a Canadian  always putting you're 2 cents in without investigation  . You don't stop the shit about info wars with me  im going take it personal. Every since I known you you're a   Canadian who tries to dictate how things are in the USA  and you don't have a clue.

 

You're problem is you don't post much nothing at all  never a source  Ive not even you start a topic in a long time even . At lest I try . Why do  start always  attacking  me personally ?  If you have noting else  to bring to the table besides personal attacks you have no debate at all.

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your  two cents on the subject by the way has absolutely no value ..except to the fringe lunatics like ambro and others like him ho eat up all conspiracy theory ...i however get full value for my two cents as i give you many sleepless nights as yo just how you are going to save the world from the likes of me...have you ever noticed that your voice carries far with those  that just hate america and would also love to see america wither and die...they want you to keep up "the good fight" too as they get countless hours of entertainment reading your posts 

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46 minutes ago, dMog said:

your  two cents on the subject by the way has absolutely no value ..except to the fringe lunatics like ambro and others like him ho eat up all conspiracy theory ...i however get full value for my two cents as i give you many sleepless nights as yo just how you are going to save the world from the likes of me...have you ever noticed that your voice carries far with those  that just hate america and would also love to see america wither and die...they want you to keep up "the good fight" too as they get countless hours of entertainment reading your posts 

I know these people are just like you though they don't  really know what  its like to live in the USA  they only know what they read on the internet . They may hate  the USA  but I don't hate them .Hate is personal problem . :P 

 

You don't even make any sense dude how am i going to save the world from the likes of you? I lose sleep because of you ? Last time I checked you live 1000s miles away Ive not even been next  to Canada  since like 2007 .You don't even live in my world. most  from the USA on here don't ether .You  sure have the real world confused  with  the internet .  Do you think I sit around and worry  if people  hates were  I'm from  or if we  are going to be attacked   I don't  I will deal with what happens when it happens  in my world just i always had too. I grew up around outlaws  and you think   someone i don't know bothers me?

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1 hour ago, dMog said:

the trump wall is not needed nor is any more money required for law enforcement...what is needed is for the army to take over patrol duties of the police and border patrols  so the police can go back to devoting 100% of their time to other crimes in stead of stopping a tiny insignificant percentage of illegal crossings on  specific area...id the army ever was actually properly patrol/defend the area.... crossings in that area  would drop   100% over night because they could tighten up that border so tight a fart could not get across...the political will is not there to do so...even by the showman/ three ring circus act that is donald trump....  

 

Back in the late 80s, early 90s, when the US Army  was beginning to downsize, 5 Corps in Germany was being deactivated and the colors returned to CONUS.  At that time one of the proposals being briefed by the Pentagon was to take those combat troops (2 Infantry Divisions and 1 Armor Division) and place them on the Mexican border.  In 1989, the US Army created Joint Task Force 6 (JTF6) located on the back side of Biggs Army Airflield (part of Fort Bliss) next to the El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC) which was a joint intel/ops center for the DEA, Secret Service, FBI, and ATF.  JTF6 flew missions using high tech aircraft and helicopters over Mexico and South America, primarily tracking drugs.  If those units previously mentioned had been redeployed in the early 90s to the border they would have tied in with the intel being obtained from those organizations and effectively closed the border, not only to drugs, but to anyone attempting to illegally cross.  However, under Bill Clinton (it wasn't sex and I can't find my ass with both hands) he was so intent on 'balancing the budget' that he actually deactivated those units and cut the Army all those positions plus deactivating the 7th Infantry Division at Fort Ord, California.  He further went on to cancel military contracts for Humvees and armor vests, among other military necessities.  One group comprised of 106 soldiers including 10 pilots, had two armor vests total, had no Humvees (they were forced to drive Chevy sedans from a GAO Motor Pool) though they did receive training on maintenance and operation of a single Humvee provided by a maintenance team over two days, and had no helicopters for the pilots to fly. Bill Clinton was also the idiot who had an opportunity to take out Usama Bin Laden and did not.  Imagine what a different world this would be if he had done what he should have done instead of getting blow jobs in the Oval Office from young interns who were in a drugged stupor caused by their positions to the seat of a nation's power.

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OK here is my 2 cents..@dMog you are a troll who brings no substance except CONSPIRACY THIS AND CONSPIRACY THAT..People have different views and because there not the same as yours you attack grow up the title should be enough to make you not read it..Oh and how about some respect for members like @steven36 at least they are keeping this site alive with lots of decent content unlike yourself of course..

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2 hours ago, F3dupsk1Nup said:

OK here is my 2 cents..@dMog you are a troll who brings no substance except CONSPIRACY THIS AND CONSPIRACY THAT..People have different views and because there not the same as yours you attack grow up the title should be enough to make you not read it..Oh and how about some respect for members like @steven36 at least they are keeping this site alive with lots of decent content unlike yourself of course..

and i have commended Steven on his non conspiracy content... just  cannot abide the conspiracy stuff on the net being taken as the gospel truth and posted here...were you part of this forum when a guy called ambrocious  was posting the americam   armed forces taking over  your country every time he heard of a military  vehicle starting  its motor or fly over a city..yea... and he posted all the proof of concept with every post he made too...and the content he had about every mass killing either being faked or a being a operation from the cia/us armed forces  with his brand of proof too... just do not want this site to become a sounding board for that  again......  that former member is still here lurking under an  assumed name  just waiting to begin again

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9 hours ago, dMog said:

and i have commended Steven on his non conspiracy content... just  cannot abide the conspiracy stuff on the net being taken as the gospel truth and posted here...were you part of this forum when a guy called ambrocious  was posting the americam   armed forces taking over  your country every time he heard of a military  vehicle starting  its motor or fly over a city..yea... and he posted all the proof of concept with every post he made too...and the content he had about every mass killing either being faked or a being a operation from the cia/us armed forces  with his brand of proof too... just do not want this site to become a sounding board for that  again......  that former member is still here lurking under an  assumed name  just waiting to begin again

Seems to me you think anything  is conspiracy content  that is not of you're viewpoint . It don't matter if its true are not .   Do you think I post  to please you  ?  No  when did this become dMognsane down were we only post what he approves? who put you in charge of what we post  here . Last time i checked  you're  just a member like me. We don't need  no news trolls deterring what people post . No wonder there's only  like handful of people who post in the news topics  very few contribute  other than to complain  about  what we post. If you don't  have nothing to  debate other than personal  attacks  you need  to move on to a topic were you do have something to add  . Because talking about people  like a dog is not adding nothing to the site. I'm sick of you jumping on me and judging  me based on former members  here .  You  and others fighting  over in the General news  about killed  that part of the board  .Because no wants to post anything about politics  on this board because people like you trolling them.    Now you are bringing you're shit into the other news topics . i guess you want be happy tell you kill the whole board. If I find something interesting im going post it so you may as well get over it. You sound like  a conspiracy nut  yourself , worried that former  members are using sock puppet  accounts  when that's admins and mods jobs to worry about not ours.

 

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actually...if you have points of view ...especially political ones you should  not be too terribly upset if someone disagrees with you...nor take it too personal... you know what is  a truth about  family gatherings...never talk politics or religion at the supper table... food fights will erupt...same problem here...truce .... 

 

edit   by the way i view america as one of the best places to live ,,,and trust people like you and others unlike you will do their best to keep it that way,,,hope you see the wisdom of working together.... 

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1 hour ago, dMog said:

actually...if you have points of view ...especially political ones you should  not be too terribly upset if someone disagrees with you...nor take it too personal... you know what is  a truth about  family gatherings...never talk politics or religion at the supper table... food fights will erupt...same problem here...truce .... 

I got upset ?

 

13 hours ago, dMog said:

your  two cents on the subject by the way has absolutely no value ..except to the fringe lunatics like ambro and others like him ho eat up all conspiracy theory 

  personal attack

 

14 hours ago, dMog said:

why come to a place that  has 99.9 % of the members that look at you like you are  strange and misguided...unless you love to argue..

personal attack.

 

Just like you attacked other members  here because  of there pov  when there's rules against it here .You're problem is you don't know how to debate the post with out debating  the poster.  I remember  the time you got jacko  so upset that he flipped  out and  got ban on here . The problem with   you is you  personal attack  people tell they do take it personal.. because you attack them personally .And you except people not to  take you're personal attacks personal.? that's not how the world works .

 

 All i done tell the truth the  border patrol does do a poor job  here its how most drugs get in other than the ones our citizens make them self's and the DRs hand out . They expect to keep terrorist out when they cant stop the Mexican cartels from shipping in drugs and humans  in . You keep believing  all the mainstream politically correct stuff you read and that's you're choice . But   if someone  don't tell the truth and let the facts get known my government want never fix it. And why would it matter to you  you dont live here no ways so its so much easy  to believe the mainstream bullshit.

 

Just  like when Edward Snowden done what he done to wake the world up from there deep sleep.

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