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I wonder what OS they're running....freaky!
Computer virus hits US Predator and Reaper drone fleet
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I don't believe the drone software is Windows. It's more likely it's some variation of Linux.
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Pilot - "Sir, We've reached the target zone. Kandahar base is in range"
Commander - " Very good pilot, bring the missiles online"
Pilot - "Powering up missiles system now.... DAMNIT!!"
Commander - " Pilot, what's the problem "
Pilot - " Sir, We're unable to arm missiles... the computer can't find the driver through windows update service and now I've got this little yellow exclamation point!"
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They should have made a set of recovery discs.
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Computer virus hits US Predator and Reaper drone fleet
Posted: 08 Oct 2011
SourceA 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.”
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