Computer virus hits US Predator and Reaper drone fleet
Like hugh says, this doesn't add up at all.<p><i>“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.”</i><p>C'mon. You're the <i>military.</i> "It just keeps coming back?" So you decide to do a press release about it? Please.<p>I wouldn't have whined like that when I was de-malwareing neighbourhood PCs at age 13, I would have <i>fixed it</i>. If I can successfully keep malware off the PCs of middle aged parents with teenaged children, then the government capable of developing and operating fleets of <i>unmanned military drones</i> can certainly isolate a network and disable the USB bus.<p>There is definitely some high level shit going on right here. I doubt we'll know about it for many years, if ever.