DJI Puts $145K Bounty on the Drone Pilots Who Were Disrupting Flights
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#2I'm so glad DJI is doing this. I've started flying drones in September of 2016. I use to be annoyed by them, but now as a pilot and a photographer, really love the unique perspectives drone footage gives me.
That said, I hear from many people who dislike drones (I can understand them since I was one, too) and all it takes is one or two people to ruin it for everyone else. So it's really good DJI is taking the lead on this.
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#3Is this a problem just in China or what about airports around the world?
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#4Is this a problem just in China or what about airports around the world?
Some fool flew a drone just prior to embarkation at Schiphol airport a while ago right in front of the terminal building. Drone confiscated, fined on the spot.
https://www.politie.nl/nieuws/2017/maart/20/11-dronevlieger-...
He still made his plane.
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#5Link is broken - anyone have a mirror?
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#6> Let’s not forget that DJI has software which limits the abilities of the drones based on the pilot’s location. For example, DJI has established that airports are no-fly zones. However, there are some ways that drone pilots can bypass this measure and fly without restriction from DJI.
DJI is going really far on this. They already have pre-installed software which restricts drones in no-fly zones. Even more, they are putting out a bounty program to that. I heard that there are some special electrical guns which can shoot down drones. It might be useful to deploy these in no-fly zones.
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#7Am I the only one getting heebie-jeebies over the prospect of drones being used for purposes of terrorism? It sounds like these guys (in the article) are just jack-asses but it doesn't seem hard to imagine bad actors doing quite a bit worse. I'm also scared of the prospect that autonomous drones might be considerably harder to stop and/or catch the perpetrators before or afterwards.
It also seems likely that this will be something that is relatively cheap and widely available - you might have to be a serious actor lay hands on a SAM, but a lone nutter can probably afford a drone or ten.
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#8> Let’s not forget that DJI has software which limits the abilities of the drones based on the pilot’s location. For example, DJI has established that airports are no-fly zones. However, there are some ways that drone pilots can bypass this measure and fly without restriction from DJI. DJI is going really far on this. They already have pre-installed software which restricts drones in no-fly zones. Even more, they are…
Yes, there are plenty of approaches being made to develop such systems that can take down rogue drones.
Privacy violations using drones are another issue that will promote the development of such guns/systems.
Here's a great article that mentions one such system that can hijack drones mid-air: http://www.whatafuture.com/drone-hijacking-device-takeover-t...
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#9Am I the only one getting heebie-jeebies over the prospect of drones being used for purposes of terrorism? It sounds like these guys (in the article) are just jack-asses but it doesn't seem hard to imagine bad actors doing quite a bit worse. I'm also scared of the prospect that autonomous drones might be considerably harder to stop and/or catch the perpetrators before or afterwards. It also seems likely that this wil…
You've just summarized why intel dragnets exist, I think
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#10I think the website is down. Here's the cached one:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:h9-Uy1z...