Editing Unmanned aerial vehicle (section)

==== Security vulnerabilities ====
By 2017, drones were being used to drop contraband into prisons.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/11/15/564272346/prisons-work-to-keep-out-drug-smuggling-drones|title=Prisons Work To Keep Out Drug-Smuggling Drones|website=NPR.org|access-date=19 January 2018|archive-date=19 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180119175506/https://www.npr.org/2017/11/15/564272346/prisons-work-to-keep-out-drug-smuggling-drones|url-status=live}}</ref>

The interest in UAVs cybersecurity has been raised greatly after the Predator UAV video stream hijacking incident in 2009,<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/12/17/drone.video.hacked/|title=Iraqi insurgents hacked Predator drone feeds, U.S. official indicates|website=CNN.com|author1=Mike Mount|author2=Elaine Quijano|access-date=6 December 2016|archive-date=5 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305082148/http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/12/17/drone.video.hacked/|url-status=live}}</ref> where Islamic militants used cheap, off-the-shelf equipment to stream video feeds from a UAV. Another risk is the possibility of hijacking or jamming a UAV in flight. Several security researchers have made public some vulnerabilities in commercial UAVs, in some cases even providing full source code or tools to reproduce their attacks.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://medium.com/@swalters/how-can-drones-be-hacked-the-updated-list-of-vulnerable-drones-attack-tools-dd2e006d6809|title=How Can Drones Be Hacked? The updated list of vulnerable drones & attack tools|last=Walters|first=Sander|date=29 October 2016|website=Medium|access-date=6 December 2016|archive-date=23 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723003615/https://medium.com/@swalters/how-can-drones-be-hacked-the-updated-list-of-vulnerable-drones-attack-tools-dd2e006d6809|url-status=live}}</ref> At a workshop on UAVs and privacy in October 2016, researchers from the [[Federal Trade Commission]] showed they were able to hack into three different consumer [[quadcopter]]s and noted that UAV manufacturers can make their UAVs more secure by the basic security measures of encrypting the Wi-Fi signal and adding password protection.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Glaser|first1=April|title=The U.S. government showed just how easy it is to hack drones made by Parrot, DBPower and Cheerson|url=http://www.recode.net/2017/1/4/14062654/drones-hacking-security-ftc-parrot-dbpower-cheerson|work=Recode|access-date=6 January 2017|date=4 January 2017|archive-date=5 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170105190345/http://www.recode.net/2017/1/4/14062654/drones-hacking-security-ftc-parrot-dbpower-cheerson|url-status=live}}</ref>