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RE: ICYMI: FBI looking into LA fiber cuts, Super Bowl
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Naslund, Steve)
Wed Jan 20 11:25:51 2016
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From: "Naslund, Steve" <SNaslund@medline.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 16:25:47 +0000
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Helicopters near the Super Bowl are cleared to be there and are flown by ve=
tted professional pilots. A human pilot in a helicopter presumably has som=
e kind of qualification to be there while a drone (although I don't like th=
at word) could be flown by any moron with a couple hundred bucks. I also t=
hink the government is going completely overboard with the "drone threat" b=
ut in the case of the Super Bowl, there should definitely be a reasonable r=
estriction on drone flights, ANY flight for that matter. I think reasonabl=
e drone pilots would agree with that.
Steven Naslund
Chicago IL
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Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2016 9:46 AM
To: Rafael Possamai
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Subject: Re: ICYMI: FBI looking into LA fiber cuts, Super Bowl
On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 15:41:31 -0600, Rafael Possamai said:
> I fail to see how drones relate to fiber cuts and the superbowl. Did=20
> the article author just throw that in there? The news helicopter=20
> getting aerial footage also poses a risk, so not sure what's special abou=
t drones.
Drones don't cost $200 per hour to keep in the air, and they're not as obvi=
ous as a helicopter. So it becomes a lot easier to get in there and grab s=
ome unauthorized video....
