A bug bounty hunter shared evidence; DJI called him a hacker and threatened with CFAA.
DJI, the Chinese company that manufactures the popular Phantom brand of consumer quadcopter drones, was informed in September that developers had left the private keys for both the "wildcard" certificate for all the company's Web domains and the keys to cloud storage accounts on Amazon Web Services exposed publicly in code posted to GitHub. Using the data, researcher Kevin Finisterre was able to access flight log data and images uploaded by DJI customers, including photos of government IDs, drivers licenses, and passports. Some of the data included flight logs from accounts associated with government and military domains.
Finisterre found the security error after beginning to probe DJI's systems under DJI's bug bounty program, which was announced in August. But as Finisterre worked to document the bug with the company, he got increasing pushbackâincluding a threat of charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). DJI refused to offer any protection against legal action in the company's "final offer" for the data. So Finisterre dropped out of the program and published his findings publicly yesterday, along with a narrative entitled, "Why I walked away from $30,000 of DJI bounty money."
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(Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday November 21 2017, @12:48PM (3 children)
...because profit is king.
If you are a chinese business, perhaps the above needs to be corrected to "profit is the emperor"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @01:50PM (1 child)
You're out of date by about a century. It's "profit is the General Secretary" these days.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday November 21 2017, @02:20PM
There's no "Profit is Mr. President" saying in America, is it now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by AnonTechie on Tuesday November 21 2017, @08:10PM
The road to hell is paved with good intentions ... true in this case and in so many others.
Albert Einstein - "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."