ANOTHER SCREW-UP BY OUR MILITARY

Those nifty drone killing machines did not have ALL their communication links encrypted so militants have been able to see what the drones are looking at just by purchasing a $30 software program. This really is a disgrace when you consider that we've known about this since the 1990s (from the WSJ):

The potential drone vulnerability lies in an unencrypted downlink between the unmanned craft and ground control. The U.S. government has known about the flaw since the U.S. campaign in Bosnia in the 1990s, current and former officials said. But the Pentagon assumed local adversaries wouldn't know how to exploit it, the officials said.