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>>fsflov+(OP)
I am the first to be on the "I own my phone let me do whatever the heck I want with it" but recently something hit me.

DJI forces you to side load their app for their Air Units and Drones. And this is scary. It looks like the rule they violate for the play store is that their app can self modify.

Let that sink in ... Any tension or whatever political bull crap happens and you have a state controlled malware on your device that can do anything it wants with your drone.

Millions of people installed this without really understanding what could be the consequences...

>>gbin+Va
This is why "do whatever the heck I want with it" ought to apply to software, not just hardware. This is one thing I think Richard Stallman got right, all the way back in 1988:

> the freedom to change a program, so that you can control it instead of it controlling you; for this, the source code must be made available to you.

We're a long way from that ideal today. Software controls us all the time. Usually that just leads to anti-consumer annoyances like lock screen ads or DLC seat heaters. But when the one controlling the software that controls you is a communist government...

Not sure what the short term practical solution to this is though.