This is old news, already heavily discussed ~2 months ago here:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4935623" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4935623</a>
There is one worry that I have: In this age, where hacking is so dominant, and not even the most secure places are completely secure. I don't reckon that these drones would have same level of cyber security, as military drones have, and even those were vulnerable (remember how Iran got one). So, if the poachers hire a exploit of this system, the animals would not be able to exercise their natural defense, i.e currently, poachers depend on a lot of tracking maneuvers, but still they don't know where the animal is actually.<p>If by chance, they get someone skilled to hack the drone system's communication system only, (and they can afford it, given how big this whole thing is) , they can poach with point-blank accuracy :(<p>I hope, google would provide them not just a secure system, but, also one that they can't profitably exploit through a hacker.