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Fighters in Iraq and Afghanistan have been able to use low cost software downloaded from the internet to hack into live video feeds from unmanned US surveillance aircraft, a military official has said.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a senior US defence official told the Associated Press the fighters could view feeds from Predator drones - the US military's eyes in the sky for intelligence gathering - but could not take control of the aircraft or jam its electronic signals.
The fighters reportedly used software that costs less than $30 to hack into the video feed from the drones.
The Wall Street Journal first reported on Thursday that Shia fighters in Iraq had used software programs such as SkyGrabber, available for as little as $25.95 on the internet, to regularly capture drone video feeds.
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The video below shows what the drones look like (during take off and during flight), also it talks about drone feed interception.