Update on drone defence/offense

Just a small update, there's been a few articles now about companies whom are reversing the RF control signals to hijack the control of the quads, it's a good approach, fits nice with the DMCA i'm sure, but still leaves many questions.

Once the attacker (defender) takes control, do they take over? or just signal to crash land?
Can they simply spam disarm packets out, like a de-auth in 802.11 but to disarm? Simply toggle all aux switches randomly to confuse the original pilot?

Drones over jails/prisons, those would likely be interactively-flown Phantoms or other builds, some which they have 'deauth' 'crash packets' for, others they don't. But it offers a reasonable level of prevention.

This works ok, but doesn't for those with a pre-configured flight path, which is really what those with an armed drone would do, something pressure-cooker style would likely have a pre-configured flight path, so the offender could get away and it would autonomously fly to its intended target, that would be hard to disarm or take down, aside from EMP/GPS jamming techniques, which I can't imagine would become a commodity attack for the obvious negative side effects against legitimate users of those services - heh, targeted EMP attack devices becoming common, that wont be fun for our digital and connected world...

Press here:

Hackers take control of drones mid-flight