A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones.
The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source. But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech’s computers, network security specialists say. And the infection underscores the ongoing security risks in what has become the U.S. military’s most important weapons system.
Stuxnet showed that a virus can be an effective tool in war, and we've pissed off (and pissed on) all the countries to whom we're exporting computer-y type jobs. Why hasn't this happened before and to a much larger extent?
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So, do we need to look for predator drones cruising our airspace? I'd place money on it.
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