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[–] 14 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

Canada would be dumb to go forward, everyone knows the US has kill switches in their gear and now might hostilely engage canada, perhaps to steal territory, and otherwise has talked of invading other nato countries like in Greenland.

In which case the US could brick all of the gear they sold them. It's already bad enough, Canada has to buy from EADS or whomever builds their air forces, I would not trust the UK either at this point, they are properfucked by their own neoliberal type politicians in labour, that have done more damage than the tories the past couple of years..

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    If the Americans put kill switches in gear they sold to Canada, that is a reason for Canada to NOT buy more gear with kill switches. Instead, Canada should resecure their supply chain of military equipment.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    everyone knows the US has kill switches in their gear

    Because you read it on Lemmy?

    There is no kill switch, that would be stupid and a huge vulnerability. The "kill switch" is a metaphor for the supply chain required to keep the jets active. If the US stopped sending parts, the jets would be useless after a few sortis.

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  • [–] -2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    It's a longstanding rumour, I read about it in the times back 20 years ago, and elsewhere later, you haven't heard that before? There's another, that the US has kill switches hidden in the majority of the world's computers, they send a signal to it and it bricks.

    I believe both of them, you are free to believe the taxoplasmosis parasites that tell you the government wouldn't do that what do I care.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    That’s absurd. All it would take is one disgruntled worker to post proof about it. And foreign powers would pay handsomely for a spy or hacking group to provide details. It’s well known that countries like Russia, North Korea, Israel, etc. all have highly talented hacking groups on their payrolls. If they had the slightest feeling that the US implemented such kill switch technology then they’d all be doing everything they could to exploit it. It’s not worth the risk.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    It's not that type of software, more like a fusible link, something you would never find.

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