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C-dub:

My take on this would be that the drones' images would
be tranmitted directly to the US operators via satellite feed.

I wouldn't think any part of the image stream would go to the
Internet. Why would the US military need the Internet as part
of the comm process?

Caveat: I am not a military intelligence specialist, but I did
stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. :-)

SIA

The other day this was being discussed on the radio.

Apparently now that the problem has been publicized, the
military is going to encrypt the drones' data to prevent this
from happening in the future.

The enemy could apparently only view what the US operators
were seeing, allowing them to know who was being surveilled,
but they were not able to do anything such as make the drone
fly elsewhere, or launch its weapons.

Thank goodness for small favors!

SIA