Value Subtracted@startrek.website to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 7 days agoThe Pentagon Denies the F-35 Has a Kill Switch, but Its Software Demands Amount to the Same Thinggizmodo.comexternal-linkmessage-square77fedilinkarrow-up1317arrow-down12
arrow-up1315arrow-down1external-linkThe Pentagon Denies the F-35 Has a Kill Switch, but Its Software Demands Amount to the Same Thinggizmodo.comValue Subtracted@startrek.website to Canada@lemmy.caEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square77fedilink
minus-squarerobbinhood@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·7 days agolmao it absolutely has kill switches. And I all but guarantee they go beyond the already onerous ecosystem and software demands. I’d wager some of the kill switches go below software and are hardwired in at the chip level.
minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·edit-27 days agoAre you implying a massive company would collaborate with a government to build hidden backdoors into its computer hardware?! Pshaw! That would never happen.
minus-squarerobbinhood@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·7 days agothanks for the link backing this up! I read about it in a book but got lazy and didn’t want to try to hunt down a source lol.
lmao it absolutely has kill switches. And I all but guarantee they go beyond the already onerous ecosystem and software demands.
I’d wager some of the kill switches go below software and are hardwired in at the chip level.
Are you implying a massive company would collaborate with a government to build hidden backdoors into its computer hardware?!
Pshaw!
That would never happen.
thanks for the link backing this up! I read about it in a book but got lazy and didn’t want to try to hunt down a source lol.