• Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    The US can remotely disable them whenever they damn well please anyway, and can not be trusted not to.

    Everyone should be canceling their orders immediately, and disable the remote access capabilities to the ones they have.

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      17 hours ago

      Nobody should have ever purchased military equipment with that feature.

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      17 hours ago

      Has it actually been confirmed they can do this? I would assume they backdoor them, but usually backdoors are secret.

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        16 hours ago

        They require software updates for every mission, that are distributed from the US.

        You can probably fly / use it without those, but you lose all the advanced command & control features

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        15 hours ago

        They don’t function without phoning home to a US-controlled server every 24 hours.

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        13 hours ago

        Some high ranking US intelligence dude said something along the lines of that yeah. I dont think anyone has hacked into one of them to check or reverse engineer the code tho.