Here's another case for @pluralistic et al when opposing #DRM #anticircumvention while addressing #nationalSecurity hawks or #defence personnel.

And a reminder to everyone else: there's never a good reason for a device to require a network connection to its manufacturer, nor for a device which could operate offline, LAN-only, or site-to-site to connect to its manufacturer by default.

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Royal Navy naval drone cameras secretly sent data to China

Cameras mounted on Royal Navy surveillance drones bound for special forces missions in the Gulf were secretly transmitting signals to an IP address inside China, The Telegraph reported, citing an investigation by the newspaper's Richard Holmes.

^{Dylan Malyasov (Defence Blog)}