"Drones" have been a topic of intense scrutiny over the last few months in American politics, particularly over their use against American citizens. Just this week, Senator Rand Paul staged an old-fashioned, talking filibuster to draw attention to the issue. Senator Paul took the floor for 13 hours out of concern that drones may be used to kill American citizens on American soil without convicting them of a crime - a dangerous violation of constitutional rights. While an answer confirming the unconstitutionality of killing Americans in America with drones was finally given by the Attorney General, drone strikes are still a reality in other parts of the world.
I also came across some interesting counter-drone technologies, such as drone-proof city and drone-proof clothing. Every threatening advancement in technology is accompanied by countermeasures which exploit weaknesses in the technology's foundations - for example, you can use make-up and funny haircuts to avoid facial recognition software - and such battles are testaments to human ingenuity on both sides of the equation. Unlike the now decades-old struggles between hackers and security experts or cryptographers versus code breakers, the subject of a drone-proofing is a matter of life and death for many in the middle east.
I also came across some interesting counter-drone technologies, such as drone-proof city and drone-proof clothing. Every threatening advancement in technology is accompanied by countermeasures which exploit weaknesses in the technology's foundations - for example, you can use make-up and funny haircuts to avoid facial recognition software - and such battles are testaments to human ingenuity on both sides of the equation. Unlike the now decades-old struggles between hackers and security experts or cryptographers versus code breakers, the subject of a drone-proofing is a matter of life and death for many in the middle east.
