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posted on Jul 22, 2015

I don’t remember the exact conversation, but Jason Ross inspired me to buy DRWND.com, as in Drone + PWND = DRWND. I’ve owned it for a bit waiting for some specific data so that I could use it as an informational site about DRWN attacks. As IANA web developer, this has been interesting and terrible but simple enough to share.

www.drwnd.com

I won’t assume the site makes any sense right now so I can summarize it like this:

  • It takes a data feed of all known locations of drone strikes and plots them
  • Circle size reflects the number of people killed
  • Circle color reflect the percentage of the deaths that were civilians and/or children in an RGB manner
    • Red – civilians
    • Green – expected targets or unknowns
    • Blue – children
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      For example the done strike in Pakistan that is purple reflects that people were mostly civilians and children
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All this being said, the data comes from Dronestre.am which attempts to be honest but there’s no way that it can be complete nor totally accurate.