[prepend]

Don’t drones require registration in the US? So any event like this will become a cyber investigation. And for the first one likely even considered domestic terrorism so it would use the NSA’s gorgon stare to trace back the purchaser and operator.

[Teever]

As the article says anyone can buy a drone from aliexpress or build their own.

[prepend]

But then it should be pretty easy to detect unregistered drones when they hit the air.

And again, I think if someone built their own drone from parts, the surveillance drag net would be able to trace down purchases.

[foxyv]

Below 100 feet it is remarkably difficult to detect and stop a drone in time to defend an attack. Especially since they can be fully automated, have onboard inertial measuring units and computer vision. Your best defense would be hunter killer drones over high value targets or trained birds. But defense always lags offense.

Guided missiles used to be an expensive proposition. Now they are off the shelf parts for a couple thousand on digikey.