In a sense, it may only be taking rational behaviors with each other.

Drone 's leading maker DJI announced that it will add a new function " local data mode " to its control application. Originally the company app updates of map and confirmation of limited flight area, as an optional feature synchronize the flight recorded in the corporate database at the time off, needed an Internet connection. By introducing new functions, it is said that it is possible to turn off all these operations.

In early August 2017, the US Army prohibited the use of drone from China DJI due to security threats, but the company denies the relation between this incident and new function development.

Is it really irrelevant....?

Brendan Schulman, the DJI officer, said, "In order to respond to the needs of customers around the world engaged in confidential business using DJI technology, including public agencies and private companies, the creation of local mode data, are working on it, " announced in a press release via TechCrunch.

According to TechCrunch, DJI company has been in the development stage for local data mode for a few months and is in the development stage, probably because the background of the addition of the new function probably was regulated by the US Army ... It has been reported that they insist that it was not prompted.

"We did not respond to the US military," said Adam Lisberg, spokesperson for DJI North America, told coverage of TechCrunch. The US military said to the company, "We have not described any material of concern at all", "We revealed now that customers of confidential data handling business clearly need the same function, and the US military Because interest increased according to the matter ".

The US military refused to reveal details about the vulnerability, probably due to operational security protection. So far DJI's compact drones are limitedly arranged and seem to have been used by guerrilla forces, such as when opposing ISIS militants.

However, it is still ambiguous whether vulnerability problems concerning the military can be solved by disabling the Internet connection of the drone control application. There is a risk that information leaks to other users without going through the application.

On the other hand, regarding the judgment of prohibition of use, it is possible to merely assume that the US military might not hate any risk that drone is hacked. It certainly is not unnatural to review the use of commercial drones by other private manufacturers for military purpose.

It is reasonable to say that it is reasonable to show clearly that the US military did not respond to the US military on the announcement of the security improvement because the US military is not the core target as a customer for DJI. In particular, considering that security requirements are not the same for the military use and commercial use, adding this function in offline mode may not be more than DJI's claim even beyond that.

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