Liberals introduce bill proposing sweeping border security powers (www.cbc.ca)

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[-] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 10 points 10 months ago

Have you heard of drones being used to smuggle guns? No physical person even needs to cross a border now. Personally, I can't think of a practical solution to this.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/drone-carrying-bag-of-handguns-from-united-states-to-canada-intercepted-by-tree-1.6438267

[-] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Better air space monitoring. We need to develop technology to accurately detect small drones anyway since thats the direction a lot of militaries are going.

[-] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Anything that's capable of detecting drones would get hella false positives from birds/bikes/cars/people. There's a reason radar usually ignores movement under a certain altitude.

You could detect via radio signals, but fly-by-wire drones are already a thing, perfect for short distances, like what you'd need to move a package over a wall.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It probably can be done with some combination of signal sources. Yeah radar alone doesn't sound great. It might be possible combined with computer vision, other computer signal pattern recognition, etc. Whoever gets a decent system like that working would have a lot of sales for it.