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[–] [email protected] 139 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.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 3 days ago

Nobody should have ever purchased military equipment with that feature.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Let me guess... microsoft designed it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

"It's military-grade"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 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?"

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.