Yes exactly. That's my point. Why would the US (or any country exporting complex defense products) need a Killswitch when they can just cut off support and make your equipment quickly useless.

[–] adb@lemmy.ml 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Fair point but I find it bold to assume that people do stuff only because they need do. We also do plenty of stuff just because we can.

And if you have a tractor company that includes kill switches in its equipment ( https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/john-deere-remotely-disables-tractors-stolen-in-ukraine-by/427045 ) it’s hard to rule out that a Defense department, which probably pays handsomely a certain number people to be actively paranoid, would refrain from doing so.

[–] vritrahan@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 hours ago

Even if it is not a literal red button that they press and everything powers down, they definitely have backdoors.