Re:U.S. Warns Of Spy Dangers Of Chinese-Made Drones
by Junk_Collector on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @11:20AM
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>Technical Question
Of course you can, but even then you're still trusting the firmware that is being put out by the potentially hostile company even if you gate keep it. To check it would require a software team at least as large as the potentially hostile one for any serious attack. That's a big economic incentive to trust the manufacturer.
>sending the high definition photos
Or you could just send metadata, telemetry, and flight diagnostics that can be used to build up sensitive information under the guise of metrics. Remember that the NSA was mostly just using metadata too.
>it was blamed as a bug and not espionage
In these cases, the two look exactly the same in software, so proving one or the other is very difficult.
Re:U.S. Warns Of Spy Dangers Of Chinese-Made Drones
by simion314 on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @01:08PM
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So from your points all Chinese products should be made illegal until China will not be a threat to US, this means until China collapses or kisses US butt.
Of course you can, but even then you're still trusting the firmware that is being put out by the potentially hostile company even if you gate keep it. To check it would require a software team at least as large as the potentially hostile one for any serious attack. That's a big economic incentive to trust the manufacturer.
>sending the high definition photos
Or you could just send metadata, telemetry, and flight diagnostics that can be used to build up sensitive information under the guise of metrics. Remember that the NSA was mostly just using metadata too.
>it was blamed as a bug and not espionage
In these cases, the two look exactly the same in software, so proving one or the other is very difficult.