Drones are on the rise in the drug world with smugglers using them to shift product across borders, into prisons - and soon to a street near you.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10398287

Cheap and They Don’t Snitch: Drones Are the New Drug Mules::Drones are on the rise in the drug world with smugglers using them to shift product across borders, into prisons - and soon to a street near you.

  • CallumWells@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    10 months ago

    And it won’t stop the cartels, since they can easily either circumvent any software that would report the flight history and be able to get drones somewhere that doesn’t report the sale to the US FAA, or just make their own drones “from scratch”. It’s not that hard to build a drone like that, the most work seems to be figuring out what to make it out of (the components you need), how to balance everything, and some software to control it. And I don’t for a second doubt that they have the ability to get all the expertise they need to do all of those things fairly easily.