Originally Posted by
init4fun
Felt this post worked just as well here , and to be honest ever since I saw the countermeasures that are so easily used against any RC gear , from the beginning days of people with illegal 500 watt amps on their CB radios wiping out the 27 MHZ band right on up to this newest advancement of being able to "beat the TX to the RX" method of taking control of 2.4 GHZ gear , I've never even come close to 100% trusting any RC link . And before folks go getting all "Spektrum is junk caused it's been hacked" I'm sure with a tweak of a code or two this is gonna work with ALL 2.4 RC from every manufacturer .
Now since I don't fly in a way that would cause the authorities to have to use such a device on my UAS , I'm not all that worried if the government only uses it to remove UAS that are truly in the way of full scale manned flights .
What I am worried about is when some idiot with a grudge against RCers gets a hold of one and decides to crash a bunch of RC aircraft for some kind of twisted revenge .
And this is almost word for word what I said in a boating forum yesterday. If one person can figure out how to hack into a 2.4 R/C set, using off the shelf stuff, how long will it be before someone else does the same for other than honorable reasons. If someone knows the frequency of each channel in all the R/C bands, not hard to do since they are posted literally everywhere, all it would take is a transmitter with a variable frequency module and a simple signal booster to override everything other than 2.4. As for 2.4, this guy has already shown(supposedly) that it can be done so who's to say, if a plane, car or boat crashes, that it wasn't shot down by someone using this kind of gear?