[cloakandswagger]

Actually it should be a simple as expiring whatever API key the jets use to communicate back to the US-based control servers. So when it POSTs to a StartEngine endpoint or whatever, it wouldn't start.

[goodplay]

Lol.

No government would buy unreliable weapons.

[DonHopkins]

What if they came with an Enhanced PROMIS Contract that guaranteed their reliability and lack of back doors and trojan horses?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inslaw

[jsprogrammer]

No government could guarantee the reliability of purchased weapons. It is already known and been demonstrated that sabotaged arms will be bought.

[michaelmrose]

If web developers ran wars the world would be a safer place.

[patates]

Apart from war machines communicating through HTTP, I can't help but giggle to the thought of such a dialog:

- I repeat, the enemy seems to be not responsive. - What, you already killed them? - No we came with a bigger force but their layout didn't change. I don't think they're war-scale.

Joking aside, there's nothing making HTTPS inherently less secure than any other secure channel out there, right?

(disclaimer: I'm a web developer)

[dsfyu404ed]

You're joking, right?