However, Tuinman then went on to say that if the worst case scenario does come to fruition he believes that, through unknown means, the F-35’s software could be altered without permission by third party operators. He compared this directly to ‘jailbreaking’ an iPhone, a process which allows end users to access features on iOS devices that are not usually allowed by Apple’s own software at the cost of theoretically voiding the device’s warranty and opening up the risk of security vulnerabilities or software malfunctions.
I hope they’re working on their own firmware behind the scenes, or at least enough reverse engineering efforts to regain some autonomy
Lol just drop an F35 brain off in pretty much any hacking convention / competition, sit back for a day and enjoy the most literal manifestation of the phrase “weaponized autism”.
I’d bet good money someone manages to run Doom on the AR visor within a week.
Europe would be better off just developing their own weapons systems rather than trying to hack a 35.
Unfortunately being part of NATO means also having to buy American weapons.
That must come as news to the French that they arent allowed to do what they do in NATO.
NATO is one of those instances where I generally agree with Trump on the issue at hand, and then strongly disagree with him on the solutions to the issue.
Like going back to his first administration, I actually agreed with Trump that NATO is a bad deal for America, and also even a bad deal for the other NATO nations. But the solution back then should have been a slow 10-15 year dissolution of NATO. Give Europe time to reorganize themselves, and then end the cold war era alliance. If we has started that process in 2016, Europe would be ten years further along in their own self reliance.
(Where Trump got everything wrong was that instead of actually developing a realistic plan for the dissolution of NATO, he just used the threat of America immediately pulling out to extort our friends.)
The idea this is something to trust in… for something as serious as national defense is absurd.
I’m not sure there would be much of a choice in a situation where the US held operation of the F-35 hostage.
Supposedly these nations bought the F-35 because it was a superior fighter, so the choice would be using an “inferior” domestic fighter (I think the typhoon is great so this argument seems silly to me) or jailbreaking and potentially having an imperfect implementation of the platform’s software.