Parrot drone pwned (and possibly killed) with Wi-Fi log-in Lack of security in the Wi-Fi link to the Parrot AR drone allows it to be blown out of the sky by telnetting in and killing the process. Ryan Satterfield, who describes himself as an ethical hacker and runs consultancy Planetzuda.com, explains on his YouTube channel that the Parrot drone hack was demonstrated at DEF CON 23. …
Well the person who spent £300 on it might be a bit miffed. They may even go so far as to claim criminal damage, you never know.
I'd like to see them try - how are you going to prove that it was a hack that killed the thing and not a malfunction? Read the bash log? If you have THAT deep an access you can cook up all sorts of mischief that could be made to zap itself on reboot. You could even make it an intermittent problem so it'll drive you mad trying to fix the hardware.
How ANYONE in the 21st century can wilfully avoid, no, REMOVE, the most basic access control facilities to use on an unsecured link is a bit beyond me. That is simply irresponsible.
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Uhm...
Don't you mean kill -9 1 ?
kill 1 kills the process with the PID of 1. Very polite.
-9 means that you really want to kill it.... as in "DIE YOU MUTHA-FSCKING RAT PIG ..." well you know how it goes.
Now going from memory because I'm too fscking lazy to google it... but isn't kill -13 <pid> used to not only kill the process, but all of those evil children the process spawned from Satan?
Didn't you know the BSD devil imp is really meant as a warning!!!
Nice to see that, between this and recent car, skateboard and IOT security SNAFUs, whilst we are building Skynet we are leaving plenty of backdoors for when the machines do rise. Should make John Connor's job a little easier.
The drone runs on Busybox which has had a few vulnerabilities and has been targeted in the past. You could indeed create a squad of possessed killer parrots!
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