Simon Willison’s Weblog

Intercepting Predator Video. Bruce Schneier’s take on the unencrypted Predator UAV story. A fascinating discussion of key management and the non-technical side of cryptography.

# 24th December 2009, 9:26 pm / bruce-schneier, security, cryptography, nsa, drones, military

Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones. The video feed rather than the control protocol, but still.... “Fixing the security gap would have caused delays, according to current and former military officials. It would have added to the Predator’s price. Some officials worried that adding encryption would make it harder to quickly share time-sensitive data within the U.S. military, and with allies.”

# 17th December 2009, 7:36 am / encryption, military, drones, security

UK Guardian Data + ManyEyes = ISAF Troops Contribution Story. Including a heat map showing countries that are contributing the most troops to Afghanistan.

# 3rd April 2009, 2:44 pm / afghanistan, military, guardian, datastore, heatmap, manyeyes, visualisation