DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate

Re:DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate by euroderf on Monday June 17, 2024 @04:45PM (#40710854)

I would like to see a requirement that any drone sold in (or imported to) the US (or EU) has to be flashable - without having to desolder components, or any other such nonsense. Press some buttons and load new software.

An accompanying requirement would be to document interfaces to hardware subsystems (chip spec sheets would suffice).

With drones, the potential for mischief is too great to let malware be smuggled in.

Is this a politically and technically realistic goal ? Or am I talkin' thru my hat ?

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Re:DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate by AdamJacobMuller on Monday June 17, 2024 @05:05PM (#40711066)

Impossible, especially for drones, because it would allow people to trivially flash firmware to drones which can bypass restrictions like no-fly zones and reporting requirements which allow the FAA or other LE to answer questions like "who was flying a drone playing chicken with a low-flying Cessna"

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Re:DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate by chipt4 on Monday June 17, 2024 @06:34PM (#40711929)

Err, while it takes a little more technical know-how and some electronics experience, this already exists and is still extremely easy to do..

https://betaflight.com/

https://github.com/iNavFlight/inav

https://ardupilot.org/

among others

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Re:DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate by snypher on Monday June 17, 2024 @08:54PM (#40712962)

I hope they don't start asking questions about where the px4s are made!

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Re:DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate by euroderf on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @04:39PM (#40732159)

I figured geofencing might be a dealbreaker.

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