Did Iran capture US drone by hacking its GPS signal?
Found on New Scientist on Friday, 16 December 2011
"The GPS navigation is the weakest point," an unnamed Iranian engineer analysing the captured drone told a Monitor correspondent inside Iran. "By putting noise [jamming] on the communications, you force the bird into autopilot. This is where the bird loses its brain."
A former Navy specialist told the Monitor that hostilely reprogramming a GPS to fly to a different home is "certainly possible".
If that's what happened to the CIA's Sentinel, it's going to prompt some serious rethinking of how to wage robotic warfare. You don't want the enemy to be able to capture and reprogram your robots so they fight you.
Amazing that nobody involved with the development thought of this. It's a pretty obvious attack if you think about it.