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It’s underrated but DJI drones sold by millions is a great way to spy on what could not be gathered through satellite imagery. If not now then during war time, CCP has a million remote cameras in form of DJI drones and can turn it on in a snap. It would require nationwide firewall to stop. Of course, DJI drones require DJI flight app to even take off.

Why isn’t US Gov putting together legislation for this sort of a thing is beyond me.



In your scenario, is China leveraging it's own DJI drones? Or DJI drones already owned by hobbyists?


Taking over drones owned by hobbyists.

There seems to be a onslaught of positive DJI YouTube videos about how creating a user account is great and easy. Including fake comments praising DJI. Just search on YT DJI Mavic Pro setup.

All this is too suspicious for me. I returned the drone for obvious reasons but millions of people are already buying into the ecosystem.


> All this is too suspicious for me. I returned the drone for obvious reasons but millions of people are already buying into the ecosystem.

We're way past the point of no return with all of this.

At some point you just have to accept the new normal. Some of this should be handled by national security teams but I am unsure where we stand (US).

I'm surprised Lithuania of all places takes a firm stand on Chinese phones, meanwhile the US seems to be spinning its wheels. I am not sure what is going on behind closed doors.


Lithuania let Taiwan call its interests section an embassy or something and China is pissed so they were probably expecting blowback


I’m not sure if I agree with defeatist attitude. I’d do whatever I can. But, I do agree that this needs to be taken care of at the legislation / national security level and citizens shouldn’t have to.




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