Stanford CIS

The Next Great Threat From Hackers: Drones?

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"“What happens with any new technology is that we deploy them, and don’t lock them down properly until things go wrong,” says Ryan Calo, an assistant professor of law at the University of Washington. “What we’re seeing with drones is no different.”

“While security and privacy have always been important, we are really reaching a critical inflection point,” Calo says. “If we don’t properly secure our cyber-physical infrastructure, we can see a lot worse than drug traffickers spoofing the GPS of a border drone.”"

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