A Military Robot that Gets Kill Commands over WiFi?!?!
I just finished reading a posting on Engadget about an armed robot that military may start deploying that “gets Kill commands via WiFi”. Now unfortunately, I haven’t found much more about this robot other than what’s in the small Engadget posting and I’m guessing that given the limited range of what we know as WiFi (802.11a/b/g/n), that this isn’t truly WiFi, unless the army has plans to deploy access points throughout a warzone. But if this IS WiFi, EGADS!!! While WiFi has made some signficant strides in recent years with WPA2, what would happen if the opposing armies were able to hack this?!?! No only would they be able to prevent their demise, but they would be able to use the weapon against OUR troops! IF WiFi is truly used here, let’s hope that the engineers added some additional cryptography on top of native WiFi security measures and that the algorithms used have undergone public cryptanalysis.
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