{"id":63,"date":"2007-08-03T17:27:46","date_gmt":"2007-08-03T16:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unixer.de\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/08\/03\/armed-robots\/"},"modified":"2009-04-19T04:09:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T03:09:31","slug":"armed-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/htor.inf.ethz.ch\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/08\/03\/armed-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed Robots?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US army uses the first tactical robots in Iraq &#8211; moving the war to a new technological level. Those little beasts seem pretty efficient (<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/defense\/2007\/08\/httpwwwnational.html\">see video<\/a>). But being in the Army and coming from an information security background, I&#8217;m wondering how the data-transmission works. I think it would be fun to hijack those thingies on a battlefield. And even if they are not easily hijackable (what I hope for the US troops), who prevents the bad guys from jamming the whole battlefield with strong signals? I could build a wireless jammer in a week &#8230; this would render their iron friends pretty useless. As a starting point for the bad guys, the manufacturer pus the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foster-miller.com\/lemming.htm\">datasheets online<\/a> :-). I&#8217;m getting a 404 when I try to download one though ;-). They&#8217;ll need supercomputers on the battlefields soon &#8230; ah, my job is secured forever!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US army uses the first tactical robots in Iraq &#8211; moving the war to a new technological level. Those little beasts seem pretty efficient (see video). But being in the Army and coming from an information security background, I&#8217;m &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/htor.inf.ethz.ch\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/08\/03\/armed-robots\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/htor.inf.ethz.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/htor.inf.ethz.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/htor.inf.ethz.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htor.inf.ethz.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htor.inf.ethz.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/htor.inf.ethz.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/htor.inf.ethz.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/htor.inf.ethz.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htor.inf.ethz.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htor.inf.ethz.ch\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}