Adventures in UAV Hacking

SkyNET Drone

My first accepted workshop paper, accepted to USENIX WOOT 2011, was called "SkyNET: A 3G-enabled mobile attack drone and stealth botmaster". Catchy name, right? Check out the project page if you'd like a review. After the paper was published, presented, and let lie for a month, the project caught the attention of MIT Technology Review. Shortly after the story was published tons of other websites started duplicating and running their own. The relation between UAVs and "Skynet" did the trick in attracting media attention. Unfortunately there's very little AI incorporated thus far into the project. Nevertheless, it's been a blast reading the various comments on the project.

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