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.

Nobody should have ever purchased military equipment with that feature.

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

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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

Let me guess… microsoft designed it.

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“It’s military-grade”

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

Post on TechHelp:

"I keep hearing the missile connecting and disconnecting.

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

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

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

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

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

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You have the private keys?

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

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.

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.

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