Is it illegal to target drones with lasers?

paul1598419 said:

Not only that, Radim, but in most, if not all, states here the landowner doesn't own the mineral rights to anything found on or under their land.

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Not an accurate statement Paul. Check what the law has to say. In short if you are the sole land owner you do have full mineral rights.

steve001 said:

Not an accurate statement Paul. Check what the law has to say. In short if you are the sole land owner you do have full mineral rights.

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I suppose it could depend on the state you're in. I know in Texas where I bought my first home in 1977, no one owns the mineral rights. I also know it is that way in every state in the west. Haven't done a state by state look into it, though. I would be surprised to find anyone in any state owns their mineral rights unless their family owned the land before these laws were enacted over 150 years ago.

paul1598419 said:

I suppose it could depend on the state you're in. I know in Texas where I bought my first home in 1977, no one owns the mineral rights. I also know it is that way in every state in the west. Haven't done a state by state look into it, though. I would be surprised to find anyone in any state owns their mineral rights unless their family owned the land before these laws were enacted over 150 years ago.

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Have you actually read the mineral rights law or are you simply stating what you've heard (in Texas)? If a citizen of Texas is the sole owner the lands mineral rights belong to that person. This should make it clear. See here. https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/gym01

The mineral rights and the land can be severed as was the case in the land I owned in Beaumont, TX. I and all the owners of the land in our subdivision had the mineral rights severed as is often the case in many states. I didn't find this out until after I bought my house. Back in the 1970s there were oil drilling wells going on in the city proper making the noise a problem for many living close to these drilling sites. And, the land owners had no recourse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_rights

paul1598419 said:

The mineral rights and the land can be severed as was the case in the land I owned in Beaumont, TX. I and all the owners of the land in our subdivision had the mineral rights severed as is often the case in many states. I didn't find this out until after I bought my house. Back in the 1970s there were oil drilling wells going on in the city proper making the noise a problem for many living close to these drilling sites. And, the land owners had no recourse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_rights

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Paul, I think there's a misunderstanding. When I said sole land owner what I was saying is said owner owns the estate land and what lays below. They have purchased rights to what lays on the ground and below ground. What I never implied is, when an individual buys a piece of land they automatically own what's below ground. The law in Texas does not state that as you know. You're right to a degree.

That was what I meant by land owned by families for generations, as they sometimes still own the mineral rights too. I guess it is a matter of semantics. As long as I am "right to a degree." :crackup:

they make drone capture devices and they are out there right now. The down side of this is that they are very expensive. you could build one out of pvc and a air tank and a net and accomplish the same thing with out damaging the drone as some of these are very expensive

paul1598419 said:

It's a bit more complicated than that. If you are jamming the signal so the car can't read it, how are you going to read it? You would need something very directional and I personally don't use mine until I'm right at the door of the car.

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This is not overly complicated: you know what you are sending out to jam the signal, so you can compensate for it. One approach would be to jam the instruction part of the signal but not the validation part, such that your jammer would not even be active for the part of the message you need, but still jam the car from receiving the instruction, triggering the owner to press the button again.

Such things could be simply circumvented by encypting the instruction part with the code part, but often such countermeasures are not implemented.

These keyless entry systems often rely on security through obscurity, as do many others like fingerprint-unlocking of phones and such.

It makes some sense though: as long as the car is prevented from starting it protects against the level of intrusion by someone hammering in a window and taking stuff in the car. To actually get the car to start you'd need to steal the other RFID in the car, which is very difficult to do from any distance.