Wouldn't it be better if a Drone could deliver you Bitcoins or two-way cash for Bitcoins. Could be like a flying exchange ATM ...lol.....
No. Look I'm middle of the road politically but it's NOT good if we have drones flying around all over the place. Say goodbye to privacy and peace if that happens, which it looks like might eventually happen. I mean they'll sell it as "wow look you can have Amazon deliver things to you so fast!" But then yeah the gov. can spy on you so fast too...
My thoughts exactly. If your willing to give up more of your privacy for some kind of ease of use delivery system then you probably don't fully understand Bitcoin generally speaking. I hate to say it but I can see that happening at some point to the more trendy crowd or when Crypto becomes very mainstream.
True its not going to be that difficult to XFER a droid with remote communication to observe people
Just transfer the control to X user or hack its signal hehe in front of Homeland Security lol 9/11 more like Drone Army invades the White House after all its all RFID dependent.
http://rt.com/usa/texas-professor-drone-hacking-249/In an interview with RT America this week, Todd Humphreys of the University of Texas at Austin’s Radionavigation Laboratory reveals that it only took a few researchers, around $1,000 in parts and some seriously smart software to send signals to an unmanned aerial vehicle’s GPS receiver, hijack the craft in mid-air and then have it do the department’s bidding — all right in front of Homeland Security agents.
“The navigations systems of these drones have a variety of sensors,” explains Humphreys, “…but at the very bottom is a GPS unit — and most of these drones that will be used in the civilian airspace have a civilian GPS unit which is wide open and vulnerable to this kind of attack. So if you can commander the GPS unit, then you can basically spoon feed false navigation information to the navigation center of these drones.”
By compiling several years’ worth of research into custom-made software, Humphreys was able to do exactly that recently — and right before the DHS. By 2020, the Federal Aviation Administration expects to have as many as 30,000 drones flying over the United States. According to Humphreys, though, the FAA might want to make a few changes before they roll out a domestic UAV for local law enforcement agencies to use.
“I’m a big proponent of bringing in drones to the national airspace. They are going to come and we might as well expect it. The question is, how can we bring them in reliably?” he asks. “And right now the dangers of bringing them in, before addressing this problem, is that someone on the ground could hack the drones and turn them into their own device, making them go to a different place or along a different path. So it could cause loss of life, it could cause collisions. But I hope that we can address the problem long before that happens.”
