At the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) in San Diego this week, researchers from Ruhr University Bochum and the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security demonstrated that they were able to reverse engineer the radio signals of drones sold by DJI, the leading manufacturer of consumer quadcopter drones, to decode a radio protocol they use called DroneID. By deconstructing this signal, the researchers could see that every DJI drone’s DroneID communications transmit not only its own GPS location and a unique identifier for that drone, but also the GPS coordinates of its operator.

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