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He’s been pretty careful to not do anything illegal (he’s talked about this in a few live-streams), for example not open-sourcing any of his control software an

• alkonaut 6y ago
  Is this a typically US thing or does this kind of thing risk getting you into trouble elsewhere too? I mean the first thing you'd want to try once you have a "platform" is things like GPS guidance, adding wings & making cruising rockets, trying terrain guidance etc. Isn't the cat out of the bag with this kind of tech already, much like strong crypto was once a non-exportaple technology in the US, but now it isn't? What exactly is the tech that is off limits (I don't mean tech that will get someone to come to your house and ask questions, but tech that is actually 100 % certainly illegal?)
  • Danieru 6y ago
    Accessible to nation state actors, and order-able off Alibaba, are 2 different levels of "available. You would be surprised, that most acts of aggression do not have months of planning and 1M+ engineering budgets. Remember the most "special" tooling the 9/11 terrorists had was some cash plus basic flight training.
  • bigiain 6y ago
    Didn't work out great for this guy from New Zealand: http://www.aardvark.co.nz/pjet/cruise.shtml http://www.aardvark.co.nz/pjet/cruise.shtml (Not "go to jail" bad, but "The New Zealand government has moved aggressively to shut down this project -- and by using quite unscrupulous methods which appear to be in breach of the law." type of bad...)