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| From | Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Dutch Defence Secretary Threatens To “Jailbreak” Their F-35 Fighters |
| Date | 2026-02-18 22:53 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <10n5ftl$32287$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
Gijs Tuinman, when asked if the EU can make changes to the fighter jet
without US approval, replied
<https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/dutch-secretary-of-defense-threatens-to-jailbreak-nations-f-35-jet-fighters-says-its-just-like-cracking-open-an-iphone-in-response-to-questions-over-software-independence>:
“I’m going to say something I should never say, but I’ll do it
anyway,” the defense secretary said. “Just like your iPhone, you
can jailbreak an F-35. I won’t say more about it.”
The operating system apparently runs to 8 million lines of code, and
of course it’s encrypted/obfuscated. But so are lots of games on
consoles and PCs that use elaborate copy-protection and anti-cheat
mechanisms. And there are quite a few people with experience wading
their way through mazes like that.
Of course the US officially denies that the hardware it sells to other
countries has any kind of “kill switch” in it. So maybe the EU has a
Plan B, maybe it doesn’t ...
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Dutch Defence Secretary Threatens To “Jailbreak” Their F-35 Fighters Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-18 22:53 +0000
Re: Dutch Defence Secretary Threatens To “Jailbreak” Their F-35 Fighters Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2026-02-20 16:15 +0100
Re: Dutch Defence Secretary Threatens To "Jailbreak" Their F-35 Fighters not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2026-02-25 08:00 +1000
Re: Dutch Defence Secretary Threatens To "Jailbreak" Their F-35 Fighters Jan van den Broek <balglaas@dds.nl> - 2026-02-25 07:43 +0000
Re: Dutch Defence Secretary Threatens To "Jailbreak" Their F-35 Fighters Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-25 22:21 +0000
Re: Dutch Defence Secretary Threatens To ?Jailbreak? Their F-35 Fighters Vanadium <administrator@pyrogen.net> - 2026-02-24 02:34 +0100
Re: Dutch Defence Secretary Threatens To “Jailbreak” Their F-35 Fighters Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-24 02:07 +0000
Re: Dutch Defence Secretary Threatens To “Jailbreak” Their F-35 Fighters kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-02-25 16:29 -0500
Re: Dutch Defence Secretary Threatens To “Jailbreak” Their F-35 Fighters Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2026-02-27 19:29 -0400
Re: Dutch Defence Secretary Threatens To “Jailbreak” Their F-35 Fighters kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2026-02-27 18:55 -0500
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