In a presentation at the Black Hat and Defcon security conference in July, for instance, French security researcher Andre Costin presented vulnerabilities in the next-generation air traffic control system known as ADS-B that he said would allow a hacker with a software-defined radio to track and even spoof planes in the sky, potentially creating dangerous distractions for pilots.

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And astronomers are just as likely to point a software query-tool at a digital sky survey as to point a telescope at the stars.

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Unfortunately, you don't get a preview of the cropped shot, and the software made some rather graceless choices, producing a few headless animals and weird patches of sky.

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