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[–] Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world 138 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The US can remotely disable them whenever they damn well please anyway, and can not be trusted not to.

Everyone should be canceling their orders immediately, and disable the remote access capabilities to the ones they have.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 80 points 3 days ago

Nobody should have ever purchased military equipment with that feature.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 33 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Has it actually been confirmed they can do this? I would assume they backdoor them, but usually backdoors are secret.

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 39 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They require software updates for every mission, that are distributed from the US.

You can probably fly / use it without those, but you lose all the advanced command & control features

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Let me guess... microsoft designed it.

[–] Makhno@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

"It's military-grade"

[–] Brumefey@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

« You need to take off RIGHT NOW! » « I can’t . Upgrade in progress ! »

[–] No1@aussie.zone 12 points 3 days ago

Post on TechHelp:

"I keep hearing the missile connecting and disconnecting.

Has anyone got the latest driver for a Sidewinder AIM-9L?"

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 23 points 3 days ago (3 children)

They don’t function without phoning home to a US-controlled server every 24 hours.

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Give is to Empress, she’ll knock out a crack in no time.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago
[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

We keep telling them Always online is stupid, but do they listen?

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well shit that's an easy fix. Redirect it to your server.

[–] funkajunk@lemm.ee 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I'm willing to bet a country, especially ones involved in the production, aren't going to have too much trouble.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Some high ranking US intelligence dude said something along the lines of that yeah. I dont think anyone has hacked into one of them to check or reverse engineer the code tho.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago

It's several millions of lines of code, and it gets a lot harder to follow once compiled, so that would be a big project.