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'We're Not Being Paranoid': U.S. Warns Of Spy Dangers Of Chinese-Made Drones
Drones have become an increasingly popular tool for industry and government. Electric utilities use them to inspect transmission lines. Oil companies fly them over pipelines. The Interior Department even deployed them to track lava flows at Hawaii's Kilauea volcano.
But the Department of Homeland Security is warning that drones manufactured by Chinese companies could pose security risks, including that the data they gather could be stolen.
The department sent out an alert on the subject on May 20, and a video on its website notes that drones in general pose multiple threats, including "their potential use for terrorism, mass casualty incidents, interference with air traffic, as well as corporate espionage and invasions of privacy." "We're not being paranoid," the video's narrator adds.
Related: Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones"
(Score: 1, Disagree) by legont on Thursday May 30 2019, @01:32AM (2 children)
This.
I find it incredible that companies are prepared to hand over so much critical information about their products to a country which is known to be so 'relaxed' about IP laws.
The rise of America as a superpower was largely (mostly?) funded by British companies looking to save a few bucks by sending all of their manufacturing there for the past couple of decades. It's really been a triple-whammy: Weakening the domestic labour market, strengthening the American market and providing massive cash injections to their economy, and providing a wide swathe of IP to be stolen and copied wholesale.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 2) by Rupert Pupnick on Friday May 31 2019, @04:22PM (1 child)
If you’re trying to make the point that America throughout history has reaped benefits at the expense of other countries, I totally agree, but you could do it with less snark and far better historical parallels.
(Score: 2) by legont on Friday May 31 2019, @11:54PM
My point was that what China does to the US is almost exactly what the US did to the Great Britain. I believe the relationships will develop the same way as well. There will be war. Then we'll become closest friends under Chinese leadership.
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.