Droning On 0
I’m going out on a limb and suggesting that they are using Windows, not Linux or Unix.
A mysterious computer virus has infected the Predator and Reaper drones of the U.S. Military.
According to a report published by Wired, the Virus was first found about two weeks ago and was several times removed from the systems. However, the virus keeps coming back and there appears to be no solution how to effectively get rid of it.
The virus did not prevent pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying the drones, but sources told Wired that the virus is logging every keystroke.
Aside:
The story about this in the local rag referred to the persons who operate the drones as “pilots.”
“Gamers” would be a more accurate term. They are no more pilots than my 13-year-old playing Star Wars was a space man.
For the robotic overlords at the joysticks and their commanders, it’s no more real than WoW.
I am more and more coming to believe that engineering the remote-controlled death of unidentified or poorly-identified persons is as morally indefensible as My Lai.
