• dinckel@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Unfortunately anything open will cost extra, just because of the nature of it. Not to mention the colossal scale of how much product DJI ship, to cut costs somewhere

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      5 months ago

      The reduction of monitoring is worth it. DJI calls home with your location and even provides tools for police to view the location of drones and drone operators in real time.

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        I am confused then what is Congress’ problem here?

        Aint this where they are taking us anyway? Or they are worried commie police also getting the same info?

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          5 months ago

          https://www.theverge.com/22985101/dji-aeroscope-ukraine-russia-drone-tracking

          Something that stuck out to me:

          The AeroScope signals are not encrypted, despite what we wrote in a previous version of this post — even though DJI and an independent source both told us they were encrypted, and DJI insisted they were when we did a fact-check, DJI now admits that they aren’t encrypted at all. So they could be picked up by other kinds of receivers.

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            5 months ago

            So the verge just took a foreign for profit company at their word, and called it “fact checking”???

            Modern investigative journalism everybody!

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          I am confused then what is Congress’ problem here?

          The data is also available to DJI, and through them the CCP.

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            5 months ago

            So they’ll be able to see that I recorded some footage of some boats near San Francisco?

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              5 months ago

              This could be a severe national security problem if the drones sent back the video to DJI as well, then a foreign power would get geotagged high detail video of areas of the part of SF you flew over, VERY useful to a foreign intelligence service.

              And I am not just talking about your drone and your flight, all other people who own and fly drones in the area would also supply data to sutch a system.

              I am not saying that this is what they are doing, but please remember that the Brittish government asked the public to send in their holliday photos of the coast of France to help them plan the D-Day invasions. This kind of information is useful.