DJI drones banned from US Army

Wow, pretty big deal. Will be interesting to see what develops from this:

https://www.suasnews.com/2017/08/us-army-calls-units-discontinue-use-dji-equipment/

and

https://qz.com/1046724/the-us-army-...es-made-by-chinas-dji-over-security-concerns/

I can see how if the data really is stored on DJI's servers in China that would be a huge security issue for the Army and of course all branches of the military. Very interesting to see how this plays out.


Tony

manixFan said:

Wow, pretty big deal. Will be interesting to see what develops from this:

https://www.suasnews.com/2017/08/us-army-calls-units-discontinue-use-dji-equipment/

and

https://qz.com/1046724/the-us-army-...es-made-by-chinas-dji-over-security-concerns/

I can see how if the data really is stored on DJI's servers in China that would be a huge security issue for the Army and of course all branches of the military. Very interesting to see how this plays out.


Tony

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Look like the USAA needs to create their own software for these. The DJI hardware is proven and relatively inexpensive. Yeah that would probably break a bunch of end user agreements, but that doesn't seem to be respected by Chinese companies anyway.

If your gonna bring in USAA, why not Nationwide and Allstate??

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Lowpuller said:

If your gonna bring in USAA, why not Nationwide and Allstate??

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But someone will want to bring in Flo and Progressive as they are a partner of USAA.

But seriously, how did the Army get and use Chinese drones??? Where I used to work there were huge debates about allowing programmers from India access to the system that held the bills of material for military parts. This was just a list of parts used in the parts; no information on how they were used or how they were assembled. Some people said that this could be a violation of ITAR rules. And the Army is just using Chinese made stuff???