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"2. Based on commentary from native Persian speakers on this thread, it would appear that no one is claiming that the drone was remotely piloted by Iranians into US Airspace, but rather the one that was shot down in Iran several months ago (confirmed by the US Government) had these photos on it."

If this is true it means the Iranians compromised the encryption on the UAV's drive, which would be seriously not good.

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javert12y ago· 2 in thread

The Iranians outsmarting NSA encryption? Not likely. Possible in theory and a huge deal, but not likely. If they decrpyted something from a military aircraft, it's much more likely that shoddy engineering work was done on that aspect of said aircraft because it was decided that security wasn't a top concern. (And, indeed, having pictures of JFK _isn't_ a big deal.)

s_q_bOP12y ago

Totally possible the imaging equipment retains data in an insecure fashion.

However, milspec != NSA, and its highly likely the Russians would help the Iranians in such an endeavor in exchange for intelligence sharing.

javert12y ago

> milspec != NSA

What exactly is "milspec"? I was under the impression that military security standards in the US _are_ produced by the NSA.

> highly likely the Russians would help the Iranians in such an endeavor in exchange for intelligence sharing.

I must be missing something... yes, but what do Russians have to do with it? I thought this was a US drone captured by Iranians. Genuine question here.

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