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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: 3, Insightful) by Farkus888 on Thursday May 30 2019, @12:30PM
I use that as a metric of a company. The engineer, mechanic, coder and other similar doing the work jobs go on one side of the scale. The management, marketing and sales go on the other. If group 2 is bigger than group 1 the company is in long term trouble. The basic premise is that a good mechanic does not need marketing. People need things fixed, they will hunt the mechanic down. The group 2 people have nothing to offer without group 1. They slightly improve efficiency, can't improve the efficiency of nothing.