{"id":10050,"date":"2015-12-18T13:30:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T19:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=10050"},"modified":"2015-12-18T13:30:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T19:30:04","slug":"cartel-corner-37-drug-traffickers-spoofing-border-surveillance-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/18\/cartel-corner-37-drug-traffickers-spoofing-border-surveillance-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartel Corner #37: Drug Traffickers &#8220;Spoofing&#8221; Border Surveillance Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"headline\">\n<div class=\"d1-title-container\">\n<div class=\"d1-subhead-container\">\n<p class=\"d1-subhead\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10051\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/12\/defense-large-1.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"defense-large (1)\" width=\"620\" height=\"284\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"d1-subhead\"><span class=\"outer\"><span class=\"inner\"><span class=\"inner-inner\">The homeland security agency, and local law enforcement as well, are looking to harden its drones against attack, but that comes at a price.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text\">\n<p><strong>The drug cartels aren\u2019t just buying <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thefirearmreport.com\/2013\/09\/chapo-guzmans-uzi-for-sale\/\">golden Uzis<\/a> anymore. As the <span class=\"caps\">U.S.<\/span> Customs and Border Protection agency, or <span class=\"caps\">CBP<\/span>, has upped its drone patrols along America\u2019s Mexican border, narcotics traffickers have responded with expensive technology of their\u00a0own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bad guys on the border have lots of money and what they are putting money into is into spoofing and jamming <span class=\"caps\">GPS<\/span>systems. We\u2019re funding some advances so we can counter this,\u201d said Timothy Bennett, a science-and-technology program manager at the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees<span class=\"caps\">CBP<\/span>. Those bad guys aren\u2019t <span class=\"caps\">ISIS<\/span>, just traffickers, Bennett said on Dec. 16 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies \u201cIt\u2019s more about trafficking drugs and people,\u201d he told <em>Defense One.<\/em> \u201cWe know who\u2019s over there. We can guess who\u2019s doing\u00a0it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bennett said <span class=\"caps\">CBP<\/span> has a rapid and growing need, especially for \u201csmall\u201d unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs. But unlike larger drones designed to military specifications, many small UAVs are far more vulnerable to hacking and location spoofing. Consider how easily Chinese cybersecurity researchers Lin Huang and Qing Yang with <a href=\"http:\/\/corp.360.cn\/\">Qihoo 360<\/a> were able to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2015\/08\/chuck-schumer-no-fly-zone-drones\/119389\/\">disrupt the geofence<\/a> on a <span class=\"caps\">DJI<\/span> Phantom drone by spoofing <span class=\"caps\">GPS<\/span>, which is illegal in the United\u00a0States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe manufactures know it\u2019s an issue. They\u2019re not going to advertise it as an issue. It becomes cost-prohibitive. They\u2019re not going to, all of a sudden, put it in their aircraft because it does drive the price up,\u201d Michael Buscher, <span class=\"caps\">CEO<\/span> of Vanguard Defense\u00a0Industries.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Remainder at<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2015\/12\/DHS-Drug-Traffickers-Spoofing-Border-Drones\/124613\/?oref=defenseone_today_nl\">Defense One<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The homeland security agency, and local law enforcement as well, are looking to harden its drones against attack, but that comes at a price.\u00a0 The drug cartels aren\u2019t just buying golden Uzis anymore. As the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, or CBP, has upped its drone patrols along America\u2019s Mexican border, narcotics traffickers have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2280,3011,2636,2351,1704,13,74,2378,1725,2620,1189,2352],"tags":[2779,1558,3346],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}