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**Arch Phoenix**

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...e=politics

Iran claimed Sunday that it had reverse-engineered an American spy drone captured by its armed forces last year and has begun building a copy.

Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, chief of the aerospace division of the powerful Revolutionary Guards, related what he said were details of the aircraft's operational history to prove his claim that Tehran's military experts had extracted data from the U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel captured in December in eastern Iran, state television reported.

Among the drone's past missions, he said, was surveillance of the compound in northwest Pakistan in which Osama Bin Laden lived and was killed.

Iran says it's recovered data from captured U.S. spy drone

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/22/world/...paign=cnni

Iran declared Sunday it has "cracked the codes" of the intelligence gathering system of a U.S. spy drone it captured last year for violating its airspace, the nation's semiofficial media reported.

Tehran bragged about seizing the unmanned U.S. drone aircraft with stealth technology in December and displayed it on national television as a victory for Iran.

Months later, an Iranian senior military official declared armed forces have extracted data from it to prove a point to the Pentagon, which they said expressed doubt Tehran can be able to decode it.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 91887 04-22-2012 03:57 PM

praps theirs will be more reliable chuckle

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 91902 04-22-2012 04:19 PM

They should have returned it...obama even asked super niceley...

**Free Range Humans** · (This post was last modified: 04-22-2012 04:27 PM by Free Range Humans.)

How long did it take them to copy a Russian nuke?

Call me in 15 years when they finally manage to copy something that will be obsolete by then.

**The Comedian**

Free Range Humans Wrote:

How long did it take them to copy a Russian nuke?

Call me in 15 years when they finally manage to copy something that will be obsolete by then.

The drone has Chinese computing components. The Chinese gave the Iranians the back doors. That's how they brought it down, and that's how they've hacked it.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 78435 04-22-2012 04:33 PM

Google "Comodo Hacker".

http://cryptome.org/0005/iran-rsa-cipher.htm

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 89345 04-22-2012 05:20 PM

Could have easily been a trojan horse. StuxnetII?

**Wyldflwr**

Being that they easily hacked in to the US drone and piloted it to the ground, I tend to believe them.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 91757 04-22-2012 05:52 PM

The Comedian Wrote:

Free Range Humans Wrote:
How long did it take them to copy a Russian nuke?

Call me in 15 years when they finally manage to copy something that will be obsolete by then.

The drone has Chinese computing components. The Chinese gave the Iranians the back doors. That's how they brought it down, and that's how they've hacked it.

If true, that is pretty f*cking sad that an American Made? stealth aircraft has to be built using Chinese made components...WTF!

**NightHelix** lop guest User ID: 79549 04-22-2012 05:56 PM

i am too, so far i have 42 toilet paper rolls and 23 plastic sporks

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 46368 04-22-2012 06:12 PM

excellent....

i'm glad, because the one we gave them has a flaw...we knew it when we gave it to them

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 89345 04-22-2012 06:28 PM

Wyldflwr Wrote:

Being that they easily hacked in to the US drone and piloted it to the ground, I tend to believe them.

How do you know? "They tell you?" Maybe we flew it to them