Unencrypted drone video advantageous to U.S. military, despite risks

The reason the U.S. military didn't encrypt video streams from drone aircraft flying over war zones is that soldiers without security clearances needed access to the video, and if it were encrypted, anyone using it would require security clearance, a military security expert says. "Operational information that's considered perishable has by and large been treated by the military as unclassified," says David Kahn, CEO of Covia Labs, which sells software for encrypted communications among devices used in military and emergency response missions.

Read More