Tired of skies filled with robots? Okay, that hasn't happened yet, but the Federal Aviation Authority expects that by 2020, American skies will have up to 30,000 drones operating domestically, so the possibility of a robot-crowded sky in the near future is very real. Domestic Drone Countermeasures, LLC, is planning to sell commercial anti-drone equipment aimed at protecting private citizens from prying eyes.
Founded in February, DDC was created by the same people behind defense contractor Aplus Mobile, which makes ruggedized computers for other defense contractors. Using knowledge gained from its military contracting work, DDC says it has developed countermeasures that are "highly effective and undefeatable by most current domestic drone technologies."
How does the technology work? The press release was maddeningly vague ("Multiple layer systems ensure success by impeding typical drone sensors, infrared and camera capability and their effectiveness") so we reached out to the company over email. Here's what DDC's Amy Ciesielka has to say: "We simply do not allow the [drone] cameras to observe with any clarity."
More to the point, DDC's system has some sort of software that's programmed to conspire against camera- and infrared-equipped drones. One report described the products as "land-based boxes."
The company insists that its system thwarts drones in a way that is "non-offensive, non-combative, and not destructive." But how does the technology distinguish between a drone and a commercial plane? Or a drone and seagull? Says Ciesielka:
As for how a user would be notified of a drone's presence:
Not knowing more about what form these countermeasures will take, it is hard to speculate on the broader implications here. But when commercial drones start to crowd our skies, the market for consumers who want to win back some privacy will only grow. You can bet DDC won't be the only one selling anti-drone wares to the masses.
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"...Domestic Drone Countermeasures, LLC, is planning to sell commercial anti-drone equipment aimed at protecting private citizens from prying eyes..."
After you send this company a ka-zillion dollar for the technology, they send you a really large, thick plastic full body and head cover rain suit.
Good luck! LOL
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If this technology does prove effective and true, it seems they are breaking some kind of Federal Aviation law, somehow, some way!
1. The FAA does not create law. They issue regulations and may only do so within the narrow scope and field in which they operate.
2. Non-combative/destructive countermeasures will likely be held in court to be tantamount to closing your blinds or covering your skylights (defeating the plain-sight discovery doctrine) or affirmatively asserting an expectation of privacy. Particularly since the 2001 Kyllo decision, the commonality of and public accessibility to intrusive technology has a direct impact on a person's privacy expectations; the more common and easier to get by the regular Joe, the less right you have to NOT have your privacy intruded upon by such means. It only logically follows that any technology that restores some of that privacy by non-intrusively denying the intrusion of others would also be held as a legal and reasonable step for people to take in personally ensuring their privacy.
Of course, this almost exclusively comes into play when a government agency wants to "look in on you" without a warrant.
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Oh wonderful, they put countermeasures on the market, & the drug dealers who send mules over the border will buy them up. So border patrols will be less effective than they already are!
Step 1: Sell drones to anyone who wants one.
Step 2: Sell anti-drone tech to anyone who wants it.
Step 3: Sell improved drones to defeat anti-drone tech.
Step 4: Sell upgraded anti-drone tech.
Step 5: Go to Step 3.
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For 10k they send you a huge tarp to cover your property, bam drone proof. Images of cheech swimming on top of a ladder through a hole in the tarp...
Easy, attach 100 infrared or green laser pens with a 300 mW (about 50 bucks each) power each to a laser tracking dish. The dish will follow the aircraft while the 100 green lasers will hit the craft, instantly causing any cameras taking video or photos to crash for about 20-30 seconds, but the longer the laser tracking system tracks and hits its target, the longer the aircraft cameras will not record anything but static.
Don't believe me…use a laser pen to hit a nearby security cam or your cam on your computer. Amazing stuff.
My solution to the problem: "Send a maniac to kill a maniac", Demolition Man.
Use a drone or more exciting build one yourself to kill or sabotage another drone. Stick a firecracker up it's butt and remote detonate. Now that would be cool.
Considering I read articles of how a drone can hide so high in the sky to be invisible to human eyes. Then launch a missile on those on the ground, killing a large area with no notice to run.
Now rather a missile, it sends a high power microwave towards someone and they fall over dead of a brain problem. Yes, this is possible. Everyone will just believe he did of a stroke.
CREEPY TOO!
Domestic drone usage is ill-conceived, elitist, and end-runs our inherent Constitutional protections.
Here are two (2), very well-produced, videos that anchor my points:
Emmy Award-winning newscaster Shad Olson’s ‘The Great Drone Debate’, featuring US Senator John Thune (7:41):
youtube.com/watch?v=ssoOASanKao
Here’s a mind-blowing, well-done animated short that really captures our collective angst that if the road to hell is paved with good intentions, then domestic drones are a superhighway to an Orwellian panoptic gulag (3:22):
vimeo.com/59689349
For national security purposes, Americans are already subject to warrantless wiretaps of calls and emails, the warrantless GPS “tagging” of their vehicles, the domestic use of Predators or other spy-in-the-sky drones, and the Department of Homeland Security’s monitoring of all our behavior through “data fusion centers.”
wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/
America’s promise has always been the power of the many to rule, instead of the one. Ungoverned drone usage, particularly domestically, gives power to the one.
Drones are large clunky pieces of sh*t! Well at least for public use. The movie industry is already using Quad-rotors with amazing tech built in. The new Quad rotors can carry a good bit of weight, have a very high ceiling now and even can use Swarm technology. These drones are very big and therefore very expensive. If you want to beat regulations for flying vehicels, use smaller vehicles with smaller ceilings. Battery technologies, maneuverability, stabilization, programmed flight paths... all doable with much smaller "drones". Please understand that our association of the word "Drone" is completely attached to the miltary versions we have all come to know. In reality, a Drone could be anything. I dare say that a swarm of solar powered Quad-rotors could easily give a much larger market immediate satisfaction for this demand. The smaller quads are much harder to track and much more meneuverable too. If I were a drug dealer, which Im not, but if I were... I would use quad rotors to deliveer my stuff around the city... not these huge drones.
"Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth. There is no spoon."
Any measure would have to be passive, and not actively effect/attack the drone. Otherwise I see lawsuits for destruction of property or FCC, or FAA rules not allowing this. You can’t interfere with an aircraft operation(IE you cause the drone to crash and injury someone on ground). Or jam legal radio transmissions just because you don’t like what is transmitted.
So yes, for $3,999.99 they will sell you really really big tarps to cover your back yard :) You don’t have privacy rights in your backyard unless you take actions to prevent a causal observer from looking in. (just because I live on the 5th floor, and can look out my window into your yard does not mean I’m violating your privacy.
from Salt Lake City, Utah
We'll see how long this lasts. If it's not a government implemented shutdown due to safety concerns and/or issues, it will be a commercial or private lawsuits that will crash this company.
Sam Kephart,
Interesting "articles\reads" about this gentleman!
open.salon.com/blog/sam_kephart
www.samkephart.com/Old_Site_2008/inner.asp?z=9
www.samkephart.com/
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Here's the problem, as partially alluded to by others. This has now been formally advertised as a product created for the exact purpose of casting interference frequencies or signals with other devices, which is illegal in about three or four ways; before it ever gets to the part of the "patriot Act" that says that our government can black hood your butt for doing it anytime they feel inclined, or, they can have ANYONE on the security infrastructure conduct whatever it is that they do-against you. And in most cases, the one ordered must comply. That includes police.
An today article\link to read:
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"...The U.S. government is expanding a cybersecurity program that scans Internet traffic headed into and out of defense contractors to include far more of the country's private, civilian-run infrastructure..."
www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/us-plan-calls-more-scanning-private-web-traffic-email-1C9001922
This is hilarious. I will sell you the absolute best, and cheapest ANTI-DRONE technology in the world. TREES!! Densely planted trees. They can't fly through them. They can only see through them with infrared radar at night. That's doesn't have the resolution to I.D. people. It can only verify that people are present. If you are afraid of drones, move to the woods..