• FaceDeer@fedia.io
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    20 hours ago

    I doubt they have a kill switch in the sense of making the jet fall out of the sky at the push of a button. But if they can stop you from updating its software or maintaining it that’ll render it useless pretty quickly, so that’s close enough IMO. They just need a little lead time on their invasion plans.

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      11 hours ago

      My thoughts exactly… and this is not a hypothetical, they have already shown they are willing to use any dirty tactic for any gain, even if it’s just to strike the Orange Pedo ego

    • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
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      11 hours ago

      If they have control of updates, they can withhold updates or deliver malicious updates. So they may not be able to make them drop out of the sky*, but they can send an update that makes them completely unable to take off, or even crash upon takeoff.

      *But they could install a kill command to turn off engines when a signal is received.