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To: carranza2 who wrote (84374)	12/10/2011 3:19:25 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218091

But why do think it is impossible for the Iranians to have taken over the controls? Because, if I may interject here, the signal between pilot and drone is encrypted and uses frequency hopping. To seize control over it to the point that they could actually land it relatively intact (as per the video), it would require being able to circumvent the pilot's control. I still think it's a mockup and not the actual drone.. But I could be wrong. Hawk

To: carranza2 who wrote (84374)	12/10/2011 3:46:04 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218091

The communications link is hard to eavesdrop. Need to discover which satellites they are using. Suppose they discovered the satellite Then need to acquire the frequency of the down and up link. (Into the drone and from the drone) Then they'd need to break the code. Suppose they did all above. Then they would need to have a software to emulate the commands. Iran now would need to have a whole parallel system -its own satellite- to act as the controller of the drone. All that supposing that the US is not changing the satellite, frequencies and codes.