Wednesday, 6 September 2017

A rebuke from the US army has DJI focused on improving security

DJI is the world’s most successful consumer drone company, estimated to control around two-thirds of the market for drones that cost $5,000 or less. DJI’s rise to the top has been rapid: in five years, the company has gone from supplying parts to hobbyists to selling devices to Hollywood cinematographers, Fortune 500 companies, and law enforcement agencies. Over the past six months, however, concerns have emerged regarding the security and privacy of the millions of photos, videos, and flight logs that those DJI drones collect. And now DJI is doing damage control.

For the last year or so, a security researcher and drone fan named Kevin Finestre has been taking apart DJI source code and looking for potential vulnerabilities. In May,...

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from
https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/6/16226698/dji-security-army-data-privacy-local-mode-bug-bounty

from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/09/a-rebuke-from-us-army-has-dji-focused.html

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