I’m simply going depart this right here (ed)
Superb work from Konrad_ Iturbe_, Andreas Makris, Jon (jcase) Sawyer and naturally, Kevin Finisterre
How Chinese language is a drone made by a Chinese language firm, working software program developed in China, with chips made in China, with firmware updates hosted on a server managed by a Chinese language firm, with Chinese language IP, an with a distant controller which makes use of a cell utility developed by stated Chinese language firm (with heavy anti reverse engineering obfuscation supplied by a special… you guessed it… Chinese language firm!)
DJI is the world’s largest drone producer with greater than 70% of market share worldwide, per some studies.
In 2017 the Division of Protection, and different US authorities businesses banned use of DJI drones, two years later the Division of Inside adopted swimsuit.
It’s simple DJI drones pose a risk to armed forces worldwide not solely on account of the truth that the corporate is headquartered in China, topic to Chinese language legal guidelines (such because the notorious safety regulation that might power DJI to “report back to and cooperate with PRC authorities, and so they should help with state-directed intelligence and counterintelligence efforts.”) but additionally as a result of carelessness displayed by their improvement group, whereby the info of all of their customers was out there to obtain by completely anybody who knew the place to look, on account of an uncovered Amazon AWS S3 bucket. Paradoxically, it was the PLA that truly ended up with their DJI pics on-line….
DJI could possibly be banned within the US by proscribing their use of the electromagnetic spectrum, regulated by the FCC. As of 2025, it’s a chance that DJI results in the Coated Record, identical to ZTE and Huawei.
DJI is already listed as a Chinese language Navy Firm by the DoD.
So what did DJI do within the face of a attainable ban?
Created shell corporations. A lot of them.
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