We’ve seen that drone advertising has now officially become a thing with this Candy Crush bollocks. How easy would it be to wreak havoc on them?
FYI: Drone jammers are not legal in the US per FCC regulations. "The use of “cell jammers” or similar devices designed to intentionally block, jam, or interfere with authorized radio communications (signal blockers, GPS jammers, or text stoppers, etc.) is a violation of federal law.
I’m going to lazily repost something I commented that has my thoughts on the matter:
How difficult would it be to destroy covertly? I’ve got a drone, and it’s quite a feeble being. Obviously these things would be a lot bigger than my little camera drone, but it really can’t take a whole lot, surely? My drones rotors sometimes get stuck when I land it in grass that’s over a few inches long. Surely that means a sturdy piece of string could tangle up those advertiser drones.
How surveilled are they? How does one even surveill something so high in the sky in pitch blackness? How hard would they investigate the destruction? It would be a very fucking expensive thing, if even one drone was destroyed. One drone would probably fly into the rest though and then you got mega damage bucks on your hands…
What is the best method of destroying them, do you think? Send up your own drone and drop a bunch of netting over a section? Perhaps having your own drone would be too traceable. Maybe it wouldn’t if it was a home built one though. No trackers that feed info back to a company like MAVIC, for example.
Destroying them is already illegal. Why limit yourself by discounting jammers?
It’s not the FCC. It’s the FAA. They’re legally registered aircraft. Shooting down an aircraft is about as big of a felony as you can do.
I have known people who illegally transmitted to fuck with HAM boomers and had no consequences.
Just like every other illegal activity, you gotta assess your risks and act accordingly.
Ham boomer sounds like the most boomer thing (I know ham radios are different to ham you buy at the grocers, but the mental image is funny)
Pretty easy. Drones need operators and technicians. Operators and technicians are human. Humans are flammable under the right circumstances.
Not sure if they’re still vulnerable but an awesome security researcher made a zombie drone that flys around taking control of others
I can’t imagine that they have good security. A virus is way simpler than all this other stuff
There are anti-drone guns that jam their signals. This one has a 2km range.
No idea how legal they are.
Extremely illegal. If you get caught operating a radio frequency jammer against FAA approved aircraft you’re going to spent the next twenty years in a concrete box.
