A possible cargo-plane-driven terrorist plot on the eve of Halloween? Par for the course during another wild week in the Danger Room. Nuclear missiles abruptly went offline, secret CIA bases in Iraq came to light, new Navy ships got (partially) powered by algae, men in hydraulically powered exoskeletons invaded D.C.
That wasn't all. We scoured WikiLeaks' Iraq documents to learn about the technological achievements of insurgents and how the U.S. prosecuted a propaganda war against the guerrillas. And we hung out at the U.S. Army's annual convention, checking out gun-toting robots, cave-spelunking robots, drone add-ons, helicopters for natural disasters, devices that sense human beings through walls and much more.
And there was even some pre-Halloween cheer: Not only were that there half as many cyberattacks on military networks than last year, Darpa's researchers want to build prosthetic limbs that talk, electrically, with severed nerves. How Re-Animator – which reminds us that we need to work on our Halloween costumes. We'll bring you more thrilling real-life-tales of security-sector horror after the greatest holiday of the year.
