The Action Lab does some great experiments and is a constant source of fun. They made a video about 5 years ago for fun that might well turn out to be more morbidly relevant today than they thought. In the video, they try a number of different experiments to see if they can confuse the tracking software in drones. Keep in mind, this tracking software is very rudimentary consumer-level tracking that assumes you are wanting to be found and followed by your device.

If you’re been paying attention to the Ukrainian war, there has been an unprecedented use of drones and drone technology. Russia has started using drones built from small airplane engines to deliver bombs to strategic sites. Both sides appear to be using drones in size all the way down to off-the-shelf mini drones that are being used to drop grenades and other explosives on individual troops.

While most of the footage coming from these drones indicates they are being controlled completely manually, the idea of using drones to track and target individuals is well within the capability of off the shelf commercial drones today. It was a threat that was outlined years ago by Elon Musk and other technologists. I think it’s absolutely something that we’re going to start seeing in war, or even assassination attempts, sometime soon.