US Air Force Creates an Airplane for Hacking Enemy Military Networks

[frogboy]

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US Air Force modifies EC-130 airplane so it can carry hacking equipment near enemy closed military networks

At the Air Force Association Air & Space conference in National Harbor, Maryland (near Washington), Major General Burke Wilson revealed a new US Air Force project, an innovative airborne hacking platform.
Military networks around the world, regardless of country, are usually air-gapped systems, meaning they don't have an Internet connection, mainly to protect sensitive data from being hacked by external actors like hackers or another country's cyber-army.
This means that the only way to hack them is to try and infiltrate the networks using infected USB drives, ground espionage agent(s), or attack the network's local WiFi capabilities from somewhere near in its vicinity.

Full article. US Air Force Creates an Airplane for Hacking Enemy Military Networks

 

[Secondmineboy]

This is just idiotic and should be stopped.

Whats next? Airplanes from NSA to hack private networks at your own home, i would trust them to do that.

 

[hjlbx]

This is just idiotic and should be stopped.

Whats next? Airplanes from NSA to hack private networks at your own home, i would trust them to do that.

They do not need an airplane... they already do it from an automobile around the corner from the target's residence. That's what is known. NSA gets all the very best toys - way before the military.

 

[Tony Cole]

Personally with the Islamic State growing and other terrorist means they should have the full power the act and do as they see fit. As the NSA deputy directer stated they do not sit there doing meta data profiles of ever person they come across. To do what's needed, the job they do, it means eventually the NSA, MI6 will come across normal people. If they do, do something it's wrong, if they knew about it, and didn't stop it, it's wrong - they keep us safe, let them do it. We do not want another 9/11 if the NSA wants to read my emails then let them, I'd rather that, then have some person's head cut off.