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On tuesday completely shut down for about a half-hour when a pilot spotted a drone flying nearby. now they have tried some counter drone systems before at several airports over a 22 month trial. my, but they determined that the technology available was simply not ready to protect her airports. commercially, there are at least 230 counter drone options, ranging from guns that act as drone jammers, nets that will chase them midair, but these are mostly in the trial phase. the most practical counter drone measure is early detection. the giant chamber where they are perfecting drone readers. they ...

Rockets are. >> general hurdling, hamas is using citizens, including children, as human shields. how do you avoid such tragedies? >> well i think the israeli military has done everything they possibly can to avoid these tragedies, but truthfully, this is combat. it was a tragic event yesterday with the four boys, but bad things happen when you have conflict like this. i think the targeting procedure done by the israeli defense forces, both their air force and drone systems has been excellent. their iron dome system has worked incredibly well, although even that has a greater than 90% probabili...

The california manhunt for christopher dormer, in february may have relied on surveillance drones when they tracked him down before he killed himself. unlicensed domestic drone systems the report says the use will expand beyond the law enforcement funk, agriculture, monitor crops and take scientific measurements as well. while the technology is powerful the author warns it still needs fine tuning. >> in this case what you're talking about you have to secure the command-and-control of the drones so they can't be spoofed or hacked, so, terrorists can't take them over or criminal organizations ca...

Security official, co-founder and managing principle of the chertoff group, chad sweet. always good to see you. it is recording keystrokes of the pilots in these drone systems does that mean the hackers can actually gain or, steal intel and surveillance information collected by these drones? >> it does not indicate that they could steal surveillance information. it does indicate that they could obtain information on how those in the system operate. and as you can imagine that's extremely concerning. but let's keep in mind the following. number one, these systems are extremely secure. they're a...