Hundreds of Drones Go Down Under – IOTW Report

Hundreds of Drones Go Down Under

Australian Broadcasting Company (a different ABC)

Potentially hundreds of drones are resting on the bottom of the Yarra River after a mysterious technical malfunction on Friday night sent them plummeting into the water in Melbourne’s CBD.

The drones were to be part of a pre-game light show before the Matildas game against France at Docklands Stadium.

For reasons still to be determined, the drones broke off from their programmed routine and descended into the river at Docklands. More

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15 Comments on Hundreds of Drones Go Down Under

  1. Probably was the result of some bored kid in his mother’s basement learning to code. Aren’t you happy your new car talks to the mothership each time you get in it?

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  2. There’s some green haired kid sitting at a computer with a big can of Foster’s and some anti capitalism poster in the background laughing his ass off.

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  3. Some one with RF knowledge built a high
    power jammer that uses the same modulation
    scheme as the drones……. Most drones operate
    near WiFi Freq.s 2.4 ghz & 5.8 ghz.

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  4. RADIOATIONMAN/HAM/CB/AM/FM/SSB/VHF/UHF AT 2:54 “PM
    Some one with RF knowledge built a high
    power jammer that uses the same modulation
    scheme as the drones……. Most drones operate
    near WiFi Freq.s 2.4 ghz & 5.8 ghz.”

    …maybe, but most high end drones are programmed to loiter if they simply lose signal. I never tried groups of drones but seems like they’d do the same thing. Some also have sensors and some base programming to keep them from accidentally hitting things that isn’t depependant on constant comms, again in case of RF interference that isn’t an uncommon problem with ANY RF device so you’d HAVE to take that possibility into account if you’re device can do damage and you’re not a fan of being sued into oblivion.

    If so, it would need to be some delberate instruction given them to ditch.

    Seems more likely a hacker than anything else.

    Or maybe it was simply an idiot coded them and signed them wrong, because Z 10 meters and Z -10 meters will produce VERY different results in Cartesian position instructions, and as expensive as those things can be, probably not something their Millenial programmer would readily admit to, even to zirself…

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  5. Lemme guess: the password to the network controlling the drones was probably set to “password” or “network” or something stupidly easy to hack, wasn’t it?

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  6. Fuck Em!

    Only ChYnA locked Down its citizens worse that the Aussies.

    … and Yeah, Toronto/Ontario was also among the longest locked down.
    (but physically too large to enforce)

    Fuck Wads

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