Iran Claiming recovering data from US Drone

The loss of that drone was by design. The U.S. planted malware and the Iranians are unwittingly downloding it. It'll throw their nuclear program and entire infrastructure back to the stone age.
 
Even if they could get the data out of the drone, wouldn't it just be data on them? You don't think they know about themselves already?

It goes to how we encrypt our data. They may also recover the ability to remotely control our remaining drone fleet. Making them completely useless.
 
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Uncle Ferd says dey gonna send one back here up Obama's poop-shoot...
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Iran says it is building copy of captured U.S. drone
22 Apr.`12 – Iran claimed Sunday that it had recovered data from an American spy drone that went down in Iran last year including that it was used to spy on Osama bin Laden's house weeks before he was killed by U.S. forces. Iran also said it was building a copy of the surveillance aircraft.
This type of drone has been used in Afghanistan for years and was used to keep watch on bin Laden's compound in Pakistan but U.S. officials have said little about the history of the particular drone now in Iran's possession. Iran has also been known to exaggerate its military or technological prowess. Tehran says it brought down the RQ-170 Sentinel, a top-secret surveillance drone with stealth technology, and has flaunted the capture as a victory for Iran and a defeat for the United States. The U.S. says the drone malfunctioned and downplayed any suggestion that Iran could mine the aircraft for sensitive information because of measures taken to limit the intelligence value of drones operating over hostile territory.

The drone went down last December in eastern Iran and was recovered by Iran almost completely intact. After initially saying only that it had lost a drone operating near the Afghan-Iran border, U.S. officials eventually confirmed the drone was monitoring Iran's military and nuclear facilities. Washington has asked for it back, a request Iran rejected. The chief of the aerospace division of the powerful Revolutionary Guards, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, told state television that the captured surveillance drone is a "national asset" for Iran and that he could not reveal full technical details.

But he did provide some samples of the data that he claimed Iranian experts had recovered from the aircraft, state television reported. "There is almost no part hidden to us in this aircraft. We recovered part of the data that had been erased. There were many codes and characters. But we deciphered them by the grace of God," Hajizadeh said. Among the drone's past missions, he said, was surveillance of the compound in northwest Pakistan in which bin Laden lived and was killed. Hajizadeh claimed the drone flew over bin Laden's compound two weeks before the al-Qaida leader was killed there in May 2011 by U.S. Navy SEALs.

He also listed a litany of tests and maintenance that the drone had undergone, all of which he said had been recorded in the aircraft's memory. According to Hajizadeh, the drone was taken to California on Oct. 16, 2010 for "technical work" and then to Kandahar, Afghanistan on Nov. 18, 2010. He said it carried out flights from Afghanistan but ran into some problems that U.S. experts were unable to fix. Then the drone was taken to Los Angeles in December 2010 where the aircraft's sensors underwent testing, Hajizadeh said. "If we had not achieved access to software and hardware of this aircraft, we would be unable to get these details. Our experts are fully dominant over sections and programs of this plane," he said.

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The loss of that drone was by design. The U.S. planted malware and the Iranians are unwittingly downloding it. It'll throw their nuclear program and entire infrastructure back to the stone age.

Hope so. Otherwise, Bobo the Presidential Clown just let our enemies have access to advanced technology.
 
Even if they could get the data out of the drone, wouldn't it just be data on them? You don't think they know about themselves already?

Are you truly that stupid?

The liberal mantra is that all the Iranians are smiling peaceful goatherders who wouldn't hurt anyone. It's the Americans who go over there and bomb these innocent peaceful people who only want to feed and water their goats.

That's because they never heard of Tehran or have no idea in the world that Iranians have been attending our technological schools for decades.
 
Uncle Ferd always packs a conundrum in his wallet when he goes to see his g/f...
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Deadly drones and the classified conundrum
May 23rd, 2012 : The high-powered U.S. aerial delivery system of Hellfire missiles to suspected terrorist targets overseas has to be the worst kept secret in Washington. Better known as the "drone program," there are lingering questions over whether the program that is no longer secret remains "classified."
The president's assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism, John Brennan, publicly acknowledged the program last month, and offered more detail than anyone previously regarding the administration's rationale for the use of drones. "Yes, in full accordance with the law - and in order to prevent terrorist attacks on the United States and to save American lives - the United States government conducts targeted strikes against specific al Qaeda terrorists, sometimes using remotely piloted aircraft, often referred to publicly as drones," Brennan told a crowd at the Woodrow Wilson Center, a prestigious think tank in Washington.

But the drone program, despite being a horribly-kept secret, is a classified program. So the question is, by publicly acknowledging the use of drones, even going into detail about why the United States uses them, was Brennan also delivering a message from the president that the program had been declassified? After all, here was the president's top counterterrorism adviser saying, in effect, "Yeah, we do that." The question is whether such a public acknowledgment about a program that was classified thereby makes the program "declassified."

There is a formal, technical process for declassifying information, but the president isn't obligated to follow a paper trail, according to Washington lawyer Jeffrey Smith, who currently sits on the external advisory board for the director of Central Intelligence, and is former general counsel for the CIA. According to Smith, the president can simply declare that something is declassified and, poof, it is declassified. The hard part is understanding whether there has been a "poof." "The classification system is based entirely on an executive order from the president; there is no statutory authority for this. The president sets the criteria for classification and for declassification," says Smith.

So if the president's chief counterterorrism adviser gives a public speech explaining why the United States chooses to engage in a targeted drone program overseas, and even talks about the internal debate over the use of such program, that acknowledgment alone sends a very confusing message to others in the intelligence world, not to mention the rest of the world. "There can be confusion, and this is part of the insidious nature of this business," says Smith, who added that, generally speaking, "Once something has been officially declassified and put into the public record by a speech, then whatever is in the four corners of that speech is declassified, but there is no notice that goes around to the government that says, 'This has been declassified.' It is just understood."

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Senators: Al Qaeda calls for 'electronic jihad'
Wed May 23, 2012 - "Internet piracy is an important field of jihad," an al Qaeda video states; Lieberman: Congress must act now to protect against a possible attack on electric grid; Collins: A cyberattack on critical infrastructure might cause more harm than a physical attack; She calls on the Senate to act on bipartisan Cybersecurity Act
An al Qaeda video calling for "electronic jihad" illustrates the urgent need for cybersecurity standards for the most critical networks in the United States, a group of senators said. "Internet piracy is an important field of jihad," the narrator of the video says, according to a translation. He advises followers with expertise to "target the websites and information systems of big companies and government agencies of the countries that attack Muslims."

The video calls for cyberattacks against networks such as the electric grid and compares vulnerabilities in the United States' critical cyber networks to the vulnerabilities in the country's aviation system before 9/11, according to a statement Tuesday from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. "This is the clearest evidence we've seen that Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups want to attack the cyber systems of our critical infrastructure," committee chairman Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, said in the statement. "Congress needs to act now to protect the American public from a possible devastating attack on our electric grid, water delivery systems or financial networks, for example."

Ranking committee member Susan Collins, R-Maine, said al Qaeda realizes that a cyberattack on critical infrastructure might cause more harm than a traditional physical attack. "That is why the Senate needs to act on our bipartisan Cybersecurity Act that requires minimum security performance requirements for key critical infrastructure cyber networks," she said in the committee statement.

The Department of Homeland Security has received more than 50,000 reports of cyber intrusions or attempted intrusions since October 2011, an increase of 10,000 reports over the same period the previous year, the statement said. The Senate committee said the video, made by al Qaeda's media outlet, was obtained by the FBI.

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Even if they could get the data out of the drone, wouldn't it just be data on them? You don't think they know about themselves already?

Are you truly that stupid?

The liberal mantra is that all the Iranians are smiling peaceful goatherders who wouldn't hurt anyone.
Try, again, Bimbo.......
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