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Europe’s F-35 ‘Kill Switch’ Fear Masks a Deeper Software Dependency

Suppose that the most sophisticated combat aircraft in Europe’s inventory could be made less deadly not by a secret “kill switch,” but by the lack of a computer file? The long-standing fear that ...
Gizmodo

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. Reading time 4 minutes The Pentagon and Lockheed ...
PC World

Your VPN’s ‘kill switch’: What it is and why it matters

If you use a VPN, you’ve likely come across the kill-switch feature. But you may not know what it actually does or why you’d want to use it. A VPN’s kill switch is one of the first features I ...
The Aviationist

The F-35 ‘Kill Switch’: Separating Myth from Reality

With heightened tensions between Europe and the United States over NATO and Ukraine, the myth of an F-35 “kill switch”, which would supposedly allow the Pentagon to disable foreign-operated F-35s, is ...