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by guappa 439 days ago
> the US can't shutdown hardware remotely

And you know this because you've personally audited those planes?
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XorNot 439 days ago
If people are going to declare there's definitely a kill switch, then the burdens on them to provide proof.

The story being reported as a "kill switch" does not include this capability existing or being used.

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guappa 439 days ago
I think they're saying there might be one, and we no longer trust the USA to believe there isn't one (and I can't really understand why we ever did, USA has been an unreliable ally even before trump).

You made the extraordinary claim that the USA has no kill switch. Where's the proof to your claim?

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randomcarbloke 439 days ago
What an absurd argument to justify the baseless idea.

American-made systems are present in most western developed military hardware, there might be backdoors or killswitches in any of it.

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guappa 439 days ago
Yes. There might be. That's the problem.
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Kim_Bruning 439 days ago
If true (The sourcing is a tad dubious?), it doesn't need to be a literal kill switch. Withholding software updates can be problematic enough.

https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2025/03/09/russian-media-claim...

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