The Pentagon Denies the F-35 Has a Kill Switch, but Its Software Demands Amount to the Same Thing
The Pentagon Denies the F-35 Has a Kill Switch, but Its Software Demands Amount to the Same Thing
Buying an F-35 is a lot like buying a Tesla. Buyers are locked into an ecosystem with complicated software that’s required to operate the vehicle.
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'The F-35 may not have a “kill switch” in the traditional sense, but the countries who bought it are locked into an irrevocable pact with Lockheed Martin and America. ALIS/ ODIN might not be able to turn off the F-35 remotely, but losing access to it can make it impossible to fly.
Only one country has escaped the F-35 software and logistics trap while still being able to fly the jet: Israel. The IDF’s contract for the jet allows it to operate its own software systems without ALIS/ ODIN and conduct its own maintenance.'
So apparently only Israel can operate these planes without their weird DRM.
How do they lock the systems out so much that it's so difficult to reverse engineer something to make the mechanics work? I guess you wouldn't want to try and fly something to test new software but surely ground testing is possible?