Chinese dev jailed and fined for posting DJI's private keys on GitHub

Re:Chinese dev jailed and fined for posting DJI's private ke... by Rebelgecko on Thursday May 02, 2019 @02:04PM (#19810671)

That's pretty lame, especially considering DJI's abysmal security practices.

For the Phantom 2, I think the root password to ssh into the drone was something like "12341234". For the Phantom 3, they make it more secure by upgrading the password to "Big~9China".

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Re:Chinese dev jailed and fined for posting DJI's private ke... by bitL on Thursday May 02, 2019 @02:44PM (#19811151)

Do you know one for Phantom 4? I'd like to adjust maximal allowed elevation (the hard limit gets in the way while shooting movies in mountains).

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Re:Chinese dev jailed and fined for posting DJI's private ke... by Rebelgecko on Thursday May 02, 2019 @03:15PM (#19811551)

Don't know, sorry. It might be worth checking if that limit is enforced on the drone itself or the app. At least for the older drones, things like no fly zones around airports were only in the app. Messing with the firmware of the actual drone seemed nontrivial.

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Re:Chinese dev jailed and fined for posting DJI's private ke... by bitL on Thursday May 02, 2019 @04:38PM (#19812617)

P4 was supposed to have it baked in the firmware as DJI didn't want to allow 3rd party apps to bypass that limit.

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Re:Chinese dev jailed and fined for posting DJI's private ke... by penagwin on Thursday May 02, 2019 @03:07PM (#19811460)

Just curious, do you have any pictures from your drone at various heights? I don't have a gps/barometer on my drone yet and I'm curious how high say 300 ft looks like.

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Re:Chinese dev jailed and fined for posting DJI's private ke... by bitL on Thursday May 02, 2019 @04:47PM (#19812706)

I don't have any public ones, though I found some video of P3 climbing continuously to 1600ft with altitude on the screen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sC5cnm3zVQ

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