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    10 months ago

    Has it actually been confirmed they can do this? I would assume they backdoor them, but usually backdoors are secret.

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      10 months ago

      They require software updates for every mission, that are distributed from the US.

      You can probably fly / use it without those, but you lose all the advanced command & control features

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      10 months ago

      They don’t function without phoning home to a US-controlled server every 24 hours.

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      10 months ago

      Some high ranking US intelligence dude said something along the lines of that yeah. I dont think anyone has hacked into one of them to check or reverse engineer the code tho.

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        It’s several millions of lines of code, and it gets a lot harder to follow once compiled, so that would be a big project.