We've been warning you--don't trust killer drones! THEY CAN'T BE TRUSTED! But everyone laughs and laughs and thinks it's all some big joke.
The case against drones so far:
- Obama seems to think that he can kill people with drones without any legal or political consequences. I guess he sees drones like that zapping device mirror-image Kirk kept in his quarters. I find this troubling. Will the Republican nominee meet a cruel death at the, well, metallic appendages of a domestically operating killer drone? What does this mean for human assassins? More lost American jobs?
- Drones have escaped the control of their human operators on more than one occasion.
- Drones can be taken over by keyloggers and other malware:
They think it's benign? No one is panicking? Oh, yeah? Think again!A computer virus that logs keystrokes the has infected computers used in Nevada to remotely pilot U.S. drones over Afghanistan and other war zones, Wired reports. As far as the Pentagon knows, no classified information has been lost or transmitted outside.
The keystroke logger was first detected nearly two weeks ago at Creech Air Force Base, where most Predator and Reaper drones are guided, and has stubbornly resisted removal, sources told Noah Shachtman, who writes the Danger Room blog.
"We keep wiping it off, and it keeps coming back," one source said." We think it's benign. But we just don't know."
Shachtman writes that the infection "underscores the ongoing security risks in what has become the U.S. military's most important weapons system."
So far, however, no one is panicking.
Wired explains in more detail this latest threat to human existence.
