US Military bans DJI drones because of concerns about cyber vulnerabilities

[orfordness]

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

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/04/report-army-bans-dji-drones-because-concerns-cyber-vulnerabilities/540720001/

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/4/army-issued-ban-dji-chinese-drone-maker-over-cyber/

[Cheredanine]

Neither DJI nor the us military are up,to date, vulnerability has been widely known for years

[DarkButterfly]

I';m not surprised considering how easy it was to hack the Mavic';s OS.

Also that it calls home to DJI servers with information regarding the flight, location, altitude, pictures and video taken, all data which could be accessed by anyone, (partially the reason I prevent the app from connecting to the internet)

[Two-Six]

That';s a very interesting discussion in this video. 

http://youtu.be/AmzIgfbLmZc

It was very well hosted by the host guy.  The next vid that youtube felt I needed to see was also interesting.  About how to hack a Parrott BeBop.  I will post is in the general chat in a sec.