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Re:U.S. Navy to use Xbox 360 controllers to operate periscop... by christophilus on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @10:03AM (#15284672)
To your second point, these things are manifactured in China. What's to prevent them from adding tracking devices or backdoors to these if they realize they're going into US military ships?
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Re:U.S. Navy to use Xbox 360 controllers to operate periscop... by mabbo on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @10:11AM (#15284730)
How do you know which ones are headed for a submarine? The military could literally just pick a BestBuy and go pick up a dozen controllers whenever they're at a port.

The manufacturers in China would have to put backdoors into all of them, which would be noticed pretty quickly, and the gain is what? They can control the periscope direction? That would be noticed immediately too.

I'm not saying it's impossible, but it sounds more like a plot device for a "set your brain on the seat beside you" action movie.

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Re:U.S. Navy to use Xbox 360 controllers to operate periscop... by DiThi on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @11:42AM (#15285621)
Both points are already solved if they have already bought a lifetime supply of controllers, which as a sibling comment says, it's not far fetched.
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