I'm looking to design a drone used to search and locate avalanche victims. Communication to the search and rescue team would be required.
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The question is based on an erroneous belief: iPhones, PDAs, and other electronic devices are not computers. All these marvelous devices can be hacked to do things that they wouldn't normally do. They are all computers (to a degree), and they are all susceptible to alteration that might give them more functionality than they have natively. Then they might be used to accomplish various nefarious tasks (like 'controlling' another computer).
