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Department of Homeland Security Recommends Passage of Drone Origin Security Act
- mfer 7y agoThere are security angles to this that it's the governments job to consider. For example, there is the case of sole source of components from a company or country and there is the case of back doors from countries that are known to spy on the US. I would expect a country like China or Russia to do the same thing with goods designed or manufactured in the US that could have the same kind of impact.
- turk73 7y agoThe saddest part is that we have DHS. The second saddest part is that the reason they don't want Chinese spy code in our hardware is because it interferes with the NSA spy code.
- maeln 7y ago> including hot new drone company Skydio, offering a competitive product at a competitive price This honestly looks like a hidden advertisement ...
- mfer 7y ago> We provide our clients a three-legged stool of branding, lead generation, sponsored and native content that allows them to “get the word out” to thousands of prospective clients and partners in the Drone space, explore financing options for your drone business, or help with content, marketing, and business development services to help grow your business. It seems you can get native content as part of advertising [1]. So, this could be an advertisement tucked in there. [1] https://dronelife.com/advertise-with-us/ https://dronelife.com/advertise-with-us/
- walrus01 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down By extension, it's astroturfing and sponsored content all the way down.
- shostack 7y agoSponsored content should still be labeled as such even in a native format.
- adossi 7y ago'Native Advertising' is more sinister than simple sponsored content in my opinion, and should be outlawed. Masquerading a promotion in a journalistic format to trick readers is just plain wrong.
- OnlineGladiator 7y agoIsn't this actually fraud?
- pravda 7y agoYes! If they got payment from "hot new drone company Skydio" then it is in violation of FTC disclosure rules.
- WaitWaitWha 7y agoI do not understand all of a sudden everyone is freaking out about the Federal Register Entity List. The list grew significantly way more in the past than recently. Why the sudden interest, weeping and gnashing of teeth?
- kelnos 7y agoMy guess would be because there has been a surge in American xenophobia, and an expected outcome of that might be abuse of things like the FREL to irrationally discriminate against foreign entities.
- imglorp 7y agoThe sudden shift of politics against globalization is more likely a root cause. The xenophobia was there, a little, in the background but it's been stoked into a bonfire by the politics/media press. Meanwhile, you can't tell me the camera gimbal on a drone is any kind of national security problem. It's more like a trade leverage problem.
- tehjoker 7y agoLol, I thought this was going to be restrictions on the government bombing civilians but foolish me.
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- waiseristy 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_American_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_American_Act
- cronix 7y ago> or any drones with parts manufactured in covered countries, including gimbals or cameras. Is it even possible to build a modern day electronic device that doesn't have capacitors, diodes, resistors, oscillators, memory chips, cpu's, etc., that weren't manufactured in the "covered countries?" Or, are those not considered "parts?"
- ghaff 7y agoThe full quote in the bill seems to be "uses flight controllers, radios, data transmission devices, cameras, or gimbals manufactured in a covered foreign country or by a corporation domiciled in a covered foreign country." So it's apparently not all parts. Which I agree would be, at a minimum, very difficult to make 100% US--certainly not in a COTS product.
- DerekL 7y agoThe title is wrong. It's “Committee on Homeland Security”, not “Department”.