UK Navy forced to strip out internet connectivity from drones after finding it sent 'heartbeat communications' to China
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Chinese-made camera components quietly sending heartbeat signals back home is a stark example of supply chain and telemetry risk baked into off-the-shelf hardware. Any organization deploying connected devices at scale should inventory foreign components and assume data exfiltration is a design possibility, not an edge case.
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