Hacker Tool Can Pinpoint a DJI Drone Operator’s Exact Location

Here is a year ago thread by mentioned hacker, actually pinned to his profile on twitter:[0,1]

[0] https://twitter.com/merlinchlosta/status/1518511122130870272

[1] https://twitter.com/74ck_0/status/1517483406518591490

Not sure why this is news? Ukraine reported this first month of war with Russia, that Russians getting coordinates of Ukrainian DJI drone pilots using this method.

The article covers that.

Russians were using DJI's own Aeroscope device to identify DJI drone and pilot locations within 30 miles. In response, DJI claimed DroneID was encrypted and inaccessible to those without the "carefully controlled Aeroscope devices."

This article exists because researchers recently released a public tool that makes it easier for anyone with interest to interpret DroneID data.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/RUB-SysSec/DroneSecurity