Security Researchers Find Evidence SkyRover X1 Is Disguised DJI Product (theverge.com) 16
Security researchers have discovered evidence suggesting the SkyRover X1 drone sold on Amazon for some $750 is a DJI product operating under a different brand name. The findings come at a time when DJI is facing an unofficial ban at US customs.
The drone shares identical specifications and features with the DJI Mini 4 Pro and connects to DJI's online infrastructure, including DJIGlobal, DJISupport, and DJIEnterprise services.
Hacker Kevin Finisterre successfully logged into the SkyRover system using his existing DJI credentials. Security consultant Jon Sawyer found the SkyRover app uses the same encryption keys as DJI software, with the company making only basic attempts to conceal its origins by replacing "DJI" references with "xxx" or "uav." DJI didn't deny to The Verge that the SkyRover X1 is their product.
The drone shares identical specifications and features with the DJI Mini 4 Pro and connects to DJI's online infrastructure, including DJIGlobal, DJISupport, and DJIEnterprise services.
Hacker Kevin Finisterre successfully logged into the SkyRover system using his existing DJI credentials. Security consultant Jon Sawyer found the SkyRover app uses the same encryption keys as DJI software, with the company making only basic attempts to conceal its origins by replacing "DJI" references with "xxx" or "uav." DJI didn't deny to The Verge that the SkyRover X1 is their product.
Unpossible (Score:1)
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It's because DJI makes a cheaper and better product.
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the usa is a goddamn police state now.
If that were true, you'd have a cattle prod in your ass right now. I guess police states aren't all bad.
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the usa is a goddamn police state now.
If that were true, you'd have a cattle prod in your ass right now.
Not only has it been a police state all along ("Do as you're told and you won't get hurt" is a message for prisoners and hostages, not free citizens) but fascism is always unevenly distributed.
Standard practice (Score:5, Informative)
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That doesn't make any sense though. DJI is a massive brand. They have no need to crank out trash Amazon grade products and change names once the bad reviews hit.
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That doesn't make any sense though. DJI is a massive brand. They have no need to crank out trash Amazon grade products and change names once the bad reviews hit.
The actual article had the headline "DJI couldn’t confirm or deny it disguised this drone to evade a US ban."
So the answer to your comment "this makes no sense" is "it makes sense as a way to evade a US ban."
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unless they do a full ban from China
They can create non-China company names and ship parts to another country for final assembly and packaging, as well.
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The factories in China frequently change brand names to avoid bad reviews and sell the same product with an illusion of choice
The "bad review" https://public-inspection.fede... [federalregister.gov]
The ERC determined to add the entities AGCU Scientech; China National Scientific
Instruments and Materials (CNSIM); DJI; and Kuang-Chi Group for activities contrary to U.S.
foreign policy interests. Specifically, these four entities have enabled wide-scale human rights
abuses within China through abusive genetic collection and analysis or high-technology
surveillance, and/or facilitated the export of items by China that aid repressive regimes around
the world, contrary to U.S. foreign policy interests.
It was easy to figure out (Score:3)
They could tell because it was so well made
Deeply Disappointing (Score:2)
A Chinese knockoff without the knockoff price. I'm deeply disappointed.