The general idea is that it’s a potential cybersecurity concern, it’s along the same lines as the Huawei ban from a few years back. Not entirely without merit, there have been vulnerabilities found in DJI hardware/software that could be used maliciously and some of them were fairly serious. I don’t think anyone has ever found any proof those vulnerabilities were intentional, but I also think that would be super difficult to prove one way or the other.
Similar reason to why they banned Dahua and Hikvision cameras from US government facilities. No intentional backdoor have been found in those either, just some security vulnerabilities that have been patched. They’re still very widely used, and you should always have security cameras on a separate VLAN with no internet access, regardless of which country they’re manufactured in.
Did something happen or is this just, “Waaaahhh, China baaaaddd!”? It sounds like they actually had better reason to ban TikTok.
The general idea is that it’s a potential cybersecurity concern, it’s along the same lines as the Huawei ban from a few years back. Not entirely without merit, there have been vulnerabilities found in DJI hardware/software that could be used maliciously and some of them were fairly serious. I don’t think anyone has ever found any proof those vulnerabilities were intentional, but I also think that would be super difficult to prove one way or the other.
Similar reason to why they banned Dahua and Hikvision cameras from US government facilities. No intentional backdoor have been found in those either, just some security vulnerabilities that have been patched. They’re still very widely used, and you should always have security cameras on a separate VLAN with no internet access, regardless of which country they’re manufactured in.