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It's a miracle ...

Mr. Mirfendereski,  

A data point to consider: //www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL30946.pdf

I propose to you that United States has been operating stealth drones over China for a few years now.  If Chinese had the ability to take this bird down, they would have done so themselves (and would not be heading to Tehran to barter goodies).

Also note please that contrary to popular conception, cracking (misleadingly called hacking in popular media) almost always is a feat of social engineering [1] and not technical prowess.

Direct (computational) brute force attack on the military grade cryptographic systems of a major power (much less the superpower's) borders on the impossible.  Regardless, even ecommerce systems employ key rotation so each attack would have to start from from zero. Somewhat impractical, don't you agree?

If the thought is that China (or whoever) has found zero day exploits of a military cryptographic system and the attack is systemic, then they must have had a historic breakthrough in Mathematics (and somewhere in China or Iran a new Gauss or Alan Turing is cranking around with a quantum computing device).

And the last possibility is that China has effectively penetrated American military-industrial complex and had detailed insight into the system.  That could explain the hacking of the platform. (But see below)

Implication: 

If China (or whoever) can attack and break US secure communications at will, then this nation is practically defenseless (and US military would be on high alert right now after this 'demonstration' of ability with fingers on the button ...) 

And if China (or whoever) has assets inside Lockheed, etc., then they signed their death sentence by this exploit. 

(Ditto for the Russians.) 

And why would the Chinese tip their hands here? (Or for that matter IRI?)

Of course, I am pleased since this means Iranian people and the rest of the planet have dodged the nuclear bullet for the time being, and that is (seriously) a cause for celebration.

Conclusion: 

Clearly and obviously this was the work of "Angels" or Imam Zaman, or possibly "God" is chastising his Chosen people .... ;-)) 

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[1]: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security)  

Dear Guive: interesting theory…

Yet one would think such move by Russians or Chines carry great risk for them, should they ever get caught or even suspected.

  One wonders the repercussion of such move to intercept a highly prized American military plane and give it to an adversary of that nation will not sit well with Americans and if it would be worth the risk for those nations?

'Hambastegi' is the main key to victory 

Mehrdad

assuming-

At the risk of Benny hill's refrain about assuming anything, let's say that the Chinese that have outer space satellite recon capability or the Russians have seen that these drones are flying into Iran. Wishing to get their hands on one, they set it up with the Iranians that one day their hackers - and they have hackers - will undo the directional control of one of these drones and safely land one on the moon surface that is the Iranian desert. That is my scenario.

Electronics

That was hilarious :)))

I do have my doubts that the Iranian military infiltrated the drone's control system and force it to land. Not impossible, but doubtful. I still believe it's more likely that it malfunctioned and landed on its belly as it was on a spy mission over Iran.

I wasn't there, just guessing. So are you :)

Isn't JS great......

He says it like it is

   and in the process

He is damn funny

'Hambastegi' is the main key to victory 

Mehrdad