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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: rcjordan on October 01, 2021, 01:35:02 PM

Title: Bad guys with drones
Post by: rcjordan on October 01, 2021, 01:35:02 PM
Drug Cartels Carry Out Drone Bombings, Evade Jammers

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2021/10/01/drug-cartels-carry-out-drone-bombings-evade-jammers/
Title: Re: Bad guys with drones
Post by: littleman on October 01, 2021, 10:37:03 PM
I suspect this will continue to grow as a problem.  I could see the day when there is a push to outlaw drones because of this.  Also, it won't be long until people are shooting at them with their shotguns.
Title: Re: Bad guys with drones
Post by: ergophobe on October 04, 2021, 10:41:36 PM
>> shooting at them with their shotguns.

People already have.

QuoteThe way William Merideth sees it, it's pretty clear-cut: a drone flying over his backyard was a well-defined invasion of privacy, analogous to a physical trespassing.
Not knowing who owned it, the Kentucky man took out his shotgun and fired three blasts of Number 8 birdshot to take the drone out.

"It was just right there," he told Ars. "It was hovering, I would never have shot it if it was flying. When he came down with a video camera right over my back deck, that's not going to work. I know they're neat little vehicles, but one of those uses shouldn't be flying into people's yards and videotaping."

Minutes later, a car full of four men that he didn't recognize rolled up, "looking for a fight."

"Are you the son of a bitch that shot my drone?" one said, according to Merideth.

His terse reply to the men, while wearing a 10mm Glock holstered on his hip: "If you cross that sidewalk onto my property, there's going to be another shooting."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/kentucky-man-shoots-down-drone-hovering-over-his-backyard/