'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: 2) by takyon on Thursday May 30 2019, @01:58AM
I think if China/Huawei wanted to, they could just continue to make phones that accept microSD cards, ignoring licensing or whatever. Maybe that is a disadvantageous move, and in that case they do have something they can fall back on: Nano SIM storage [soylentnews.org].
There is probably no reversing the trend here. China wants to ensure self-sufficiency. Huawei will definitely polish HongMeng OS to replace Android. China will have its own space program [wikipedia.org], space station, and manned lunar program. Etc.
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