Friday, October 7, 2011

This Can't Be Good . . .

Noah Shachtman of Wired's Danger Room blog reports that a computer virus has infected the U.S. Predator and Reaper drone fleets.  Apparently this hasn't affected their ability to fly missions remotely from Nevada, but the virus has resisted all attempts to permanently scrub it from the network.  The key quote comes at the end of the story: “It’s getting a lot of attention,” an officer at Creech Air Force Base says. “But no one’s panicking. Yet.” 

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