I mean, a lot of it is more vulnerable than you would think. There’s a reason abandoned equipment is supposed to be destroyed.
That said, physical access is the name of the game. Remotely hacking a drone, or any device, would be a big ask without being close enough to see it responding to whatever preliminary access attempts.
If you’re going to hack a landmine to disable it then the same end result occurs. The landmine is no longer dangerous and the original comment is scaremongering. Either it’s hacked to be disabled to help the Russians or it can’t be hacked and will be disabled when the defenders want to. Both cases end in disarming. The worst would be if they somehow cannot be disabled, but even then, tracking systems have massively improved since the horrors of the past. They’d know exactly where they are and those countries are rich enough to get rid of them with equipment. The worst cases have occurred from invading countries placing landmines in locations that the eventual citizens are in danger from them.
In any case, the linked post was clearly being brigaded by tankies thinking that Russia can hack anything.
I have my doubts about these landmines in the first place, but I intenionally ignored them to focus on the premise in the title. The idea that front-line mil-tech is all that secure is just NCD leaking.
Not sure I understand
Getting a bunch of downvotes for stating that Russia isn’t hacking other countries’ military technology. Post is on .ml and couldn’t think of any other reason.
Took a look at the thread, some pretty gruesome tankieness going on in there, so you’re probably not wrong.
I didn’t really understand it at first, because clearly military devices do not function anything like an IoT device. Then numerous comments started suggesting that Russia would just hack the land mines and so clearly they should be hacking all the drones as well, but that sure doesn’t seem to be happening. Then I got dog piled on and was like “wtf it’s happening” and took a look at the instance and the users and it became clear.
