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Luke Canfield

Luke Canfield

Cybersecurity analyst and drone-hacking researcher (Peraton) who runs Reconnaissance Drone Consulting and speaks on drone and RF security.

Sep 29, 2026

17:39
So what type of training do you
17:40
do? Basics, because there's actually a lot of people in organizations that don't really know that much about drones.
17:48
So I'm actually working on a Drones 101 course that should be coming out soon.
17:56
Ideally, I would have it completed before Deadwood, but it's kind of a tight schedule with everything.
18:02
And it's basically just the internals of drones, the types of drones you have, what they're used for, what they can do, what they can't do, the physics limitations of drones, because physics are the constraint.
18:16
You only have so much battery.
18:18
You add more battery, you add more weight, so there's diminishing returns on batteries with drones.
20:17
Yeah, it's just really easy to drown that noise out.
4:05
Yeah.
4:05
Like, they'll be lucky if they hear it, because after you get, like, above 150 feet, can't really hear them that well unless it is perfectly quiet.
4:15
This is, like ...
4:16
And birds aren't subject to, uh, cognitive bias.
4:20
Like, it's like, "Oh, no one's gonna use a drone." I had, like, one guy argue with me once that, "Oh, drones, like, no one's doing this with drones.
4:27
It's gonna be a guy with a laptop sitting out in the parking lot with his car." Well, if you have a security, you have security guards who are worth anything, th- they're gonna notice, "Hey, that car has been parked out there for a while, and that guy's been sitting in it all day, and we don't know who he is." Or, "This guy's been walking down the street back and forth in front of this building, and he has antennas hanging out of his backpack.
4:49
We don't know who he is." That's gonna be quickly noticeable.
6:00
You gotta worry about the sky now

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