The news is almost two months old. As it hasn't been spread much and I think some forums members will like to know, I'll share that here anyway.
This is a hot topic, and there is an interesting thread about that on a Pakistani defense forum.
This reminds me of the remote-control software included in the Boeing passenger jets.
To my knowledge, only German Lufthansa took the effort to remove that backdoor, making it invulnerable to attacks like 9/11.
Norwegian defense officials soon discovered that their fancy fleet of F-35s also automatically transmit sensitive data to Lockheed Martin’s servers in Fort Worth, Texas, after each flight.
“Due to national considerations, there is a need for a filter where the user nations can exclude sensitive data from the data stream that is shared by the system with the manufacturer Lockheed Martin,” said Defense Ministry senior consultant Lars Gjemble, as cited by Norway’s ABC Nyheter.
Although Gjemble hailed the F-35 as a major upgrade for Norway’s air capabilities, he also stressed that the data being beamed to Fort Worth could potentially compromise the security of the pilot, likening Lockheed’s data leeching to “information your iPhone shares with the manufacturers.”
This is a hot topic, and there is an interesting thread about that on a Pakistani defense forum.
This reminds me of the remote-control software included in the Boeing passenger jets.
To my knowledge, only German Lufthansa took the effort to remove that backdoor, making it invulnerable to attacks like 9/11.