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DJI denies throttling Ukrainian drones, confirms trouble to AeroScope in Ukraine
- sschueller 5y agoTil, dji sells a device that allows governments or whom ever to locate the pilot of a drone. I wonder how/if that's works for home made drones flying autonomously a set of way point.
- detaro 5y agoIt's explicitly a system providing information about DJI drones (and drones of other manufacturers that opt-in to providing compatible data, can't find anything if any actually do).
- sschueller 5y agoScarry how such a thing can be abused to drop a bomb on a civilian.
- rasz 5y agoSo much to unpack here. 1 Do remotes really contain GPS and beam pilots position? Or is it position Drone took off from? 2 “We are aware of problems with some AeroScope units in Ukraine; they may be connected to prolonged loss of power/internet.” wait, why would AeroScope, a black box receiver, be conditionally working depending on its online status? why would it need to phone home? like a shit malware cellphone flashlight app? 3 Did anyone yet came up with a quick hack to intercept TX line from GPS radio inside DJI drone to add a fixed programmable offset? This way anyone privacy conscious would be able to virtually move their drone 500 km away (or pretend to take off from enemy command post) before every takeoff. Looking at https://www.edn.com/teardown-dji-spark-drone/ https://www.edn.com/teardown-dji-spark-drone/ GPS module is on a separate daughterboard and spoofing the signal should be trivial, something like attiny is up for the job.