{"id":78007,"date":"2018-04-23T20:02:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T03:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/the-israel-linked-killing-of-fadi-al-batsh-in-malaysia-shows-that-drone-technology-is-now-dangerous-enough-to-kill-for"},"modified":"2018-04-23T20:02:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T03:02:31","slug":"the-israel-linked-killing-of-fadi-al-batsh-in-malaysia-shows-that-drone-technology-is-now-dangerous-enough-to-kill-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/the-israel-linked-killing-of-fadi-al-batsh-in-malaysia-shows-that-drone-technology-is-now-dangerous-enough-to-kill-for","title":{"rendered":"The Israel-linked killing of Fadi al-Batsh in Malaysia shows that drone technology is now dangerous enough to kill for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-israel-linked-killing-of-fadi-al-batsh-in-malaysia-shows-that-drone-technology-is-now-dangerous-enough-to-kill-for.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are certain classes of technology that, by their nature, put those who possess their secrets in danger: Nuclear weapons. Ballistic missiles. Advanced encryption software.<\/p>\n<p>Now, add unmanned aerial vehicles\u2014drones\u2014to that list.<\/p>\n<p>A Palestinian electrical engineer who had published research on drones was assassinated in Malaysia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/malaysia-seeks-killers-of-palestinian-engineer-1524431407\">the Wall Street Journal reported<\/a> (paywall). A helmeted person on a motorcycle fired 10 shots at 35 year-old Fadi al-Batsh, killing him as he walked to a mosque for morning prayers.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1259359\/the-israel-linked-killing-of-fadi-al-batsh-in-malaysia-shows-that-drone-technology-is-now-dangerous-enough-to-kill-for\/\">https:\/\/qz.com\/1259359\/the-israel-linked-killing-of-fadi-al-...-kill-for\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are certain classes of technology that, by their nature, put those who possess their secrets in danger: Nuclear weapons. Ballistic missiles. Advanced encryption software. Now, add unmanned aerial vehicles\u2014drones\u2014to that list. A Palestinian electrical engineer who had published research on drones was assassinated in Malaysia, the Wall Street Journal reported (paywall). A helmeted person [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1625,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-encryption","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}