U.S. Warns Of Spy Dangers Of Chinese-Made Drones
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#2I wonder how much of this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, aided in part by ongoing weaponization of inter-nation trade discussions by targeting firms from China (arrests of executives, bans, etc).
Of course, I've seen it argued that China has been targeting US firms for a decade in various ways - which only makes the events this year yet another escalation of action.
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#3Why not resolve the 737 MAX issues first, if we are worried about flying things causing damage?
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#4Why not resolve the 737 MAX issues first, if we are worried about flying things causing damage?
This is not even the same Department. A government can and should have multiple simultaneous priorities.
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#5Why not resolve the 737 MAX issues first, if we are worried about flying things causing damage?
This is not even the same Department. A government can and should have multiple simultaneous priorities.
A government also can and should prioritize amongst multiple simultaneous priorities.
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#6Youre only paranoid if youre wrong.
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#7Why not publish a specific threat?
These vague "The Chinese are up to something but we cannot reveal what" isn't really helpful, particularly given the current trade tensions (and political motivations e.g. "bring jobs home").
I'm not really "siding" with the Chinese, they may be up to something, but the US has really done themselves a great deal of damage when their own allies don't really believe them.
Just publish technical information. It isn't hard. It would do huge damage to the Chinese and reinforce the US's whole argument. But yet after over a year, nada.
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#8Now they know how everyone else feels
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#9Security researchers in the field have been talking about this for several years. DJI absolutely dominates the consumer/pro UAV market so this is a real issue.
Source: I had a UAV related startup several years ago and got to know some of the security folks.
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#10Why not publish a specific threat? These vague "The Chinese are up to something but we cannot reveal what" isn't really helpful, particularly given the current trade tensions (and political motivations e.g. "bring jobs home"). I'm not really "siding" with the Chinese, they may be up to something, but the US has really done themselves a great deal of damage when their own allies don't really believe them. Just publish…
There have been instances whereby a robotic hoover (Xaomi(sp?) one?) have been sending their generated floor maps back to servers in CN, so I don't think it's unreasonable to assume drones could be doing the same thing.