Drone Maker D.J.I. May Be Sending Data to China, U.S. Officials Say
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#2I thought this was like a for sure thing already.
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#3I thought this was like a for sure thing already.
Yeah, the army already issued a memo saying that they were not using DJI until this was resolved. That was back in August.
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#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, the army already issued a memo saying that they were not using DJI until this was resolved. That was back in August.
That the Army is considering using them at all is interesting.
Aren't DJI drones the best? The military applications of quadcopters seem obvious.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
That the Army is considering using them at all is interesting.
Aren't DJI drones the best? The military applications of quadcopters seem obvious.
Quadcopters are in the lower tier of all drone types. Fixed-wing drones are more suited to military applications due to greater range and payload capacity, not to mention speed.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
That the Army is considering using them at all is interesting.
Aren't DJI drones the best? The military applications of quadcopters seem obvious.
I get the impression that the Chinese government constantly violets intellectual property of American companies. I'd have no problems if the US government copies DJI designs for military purposes. Return the favor.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Aren't DJI drones the best? The military applications of quadcopters seem obvious.
Quadcopters are in the lower tier of all drone types. Fixed-wing drones are more suited to military applications due to greater range and payload capacity, not to mention speed.
There are too many different "military applications" to say that. For sending a drone into a building with possible enemy soldiers, a rotary-wing is definitely better than a fixed-wing.
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#9The response to this issue, which was mostly news from August but is coming up again today due to the new probe, was that DJI decided to add an "offline" mode.
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/14/dji-adds-an-offline-mode-t...
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#10All android phone are definitely sending data to United States. Why is sending data to one country better than sending data to another?
For US citizens, this might be irrelevant (not so much if we go by the leaks). But for everyone living anywhere else on the globe, owning a smartphone means usually owning an endpoint for one of the giant corporate data sinks which its government can easily access.
I understand that it is the price I have to pay for a free (sic) OS and play services. But I use it because of a lack of viable libre and open alternative.
And I have about as much choice as someone in the market for a decent quadcopter unwilling to send data to China.