New Level of Risks: Robotic Warfare

I read "Navy gears up for unmanned combat aircraft" and thought: as these remote controlled war machines and even autonomous robotic ones get into the battlefield, the next level of warfare is to crack into these machines either through their communications link or even directly into the machines somehow [the weak links are: manufacturing (when it is made), programming at military installation (when it is programmed before release) or while being transported from factory to battlefield].

Unlike the wars of the past (where you can individually bribe or blackmail soldiers but not en mass), it would be possible to "infect" all machines (or most of them) to attack the robotic "masters" (i.e., create essentially an electronic mutiny). A counter measure protection would be to shutdown or self destruct when probes are detected (to prevent mutiny) but then that weakness can be exploited to disable the machines at the get go. And the cop-and-robber chase would continue....

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