The Drones were not "hacked" - they were listened to.

Go ahead and descramble your cable signal, you will be charged with "hacking". I was just going by the sensationalist label of the act given to it by law-enforcement, media and the political "establishment".

Similar dilution of the term occurs here on a daily basis.

The drone signals were not scrambled. So it seems to me that you're diluting the term too far.

Actually, the current understanding is that the drones were hacked by insurgents specifically funded by the Iranians, so...

I don't even like the idea of microblogging, so to me this is about as big of news as hearing that the IRA managed to bomb a backyard chicken coop.

ed: didn't mean hacked, I know it was just a matter of listening to the data feed, not actually doing anything to the drone.