When it comes to UAVs over America, lawmakers have a new boogeyman: hackers. At a congressional hearing July 19, a University of Texas professor described how he and his students hijacked an $80,000 Adaptive Flight Hornet Mini at the behest of the Homeland Security Department (DHS) during a demonstration last month at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. The Hornet Mini is just the kind of small rotorcraft a local police force might use.
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