Originally Posted by
Hydro Junkie
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?
With this latest development , what's worse than just a crash in a random uncontrolled spot now the RC can be literally hijacked and flown into something , beyond the RC owner's control , and leave the RCer to have to explain how he didn't deliberately fly straight into that (person , building , car , whatever) like it appeared to all the bystanders !
Like I said I have never trusted 100% in any radio link , and all things like this do is to reinforce the reasons why I fly like I do . Yes sir , I don't do full speed runs straight at the pilot's stations only to pull up at the last second because in order ; #1 , it's against the safety code , #2 , I would never jeopardize anyone's safety like that , and , #3 I wouldn't ever trust that that wouldn't be the very moment someone might be testing such a device as is being discussed here .