Comment by kelvin0
10 years ago
Is his house on a Military base? Otherwise, how can he have such sensitive material in his home? That is a much bigger security risk to me it seems ...
10 years ago
Is his house on a Military base? Otherwise, how can he have such sensitive material in his home? That is a much bigger security risk to me it seems ...
Maybe I wasn't clear, they were prototypes. The final factory that ended up building them at scale was next to an airbase that has the physical security that you'd expect. But they still use web browsers there.
I see. Curiously though I thought prototypes of that nature were to be treated as sensitive material. Thanks for clarifying.
Yeah, I was blown away as well. But there are startups in the military space just like there are in the civilian space, and he had some unique angle he was going for. I think he was also mostly selling to the secondary market where costs mattered more (Vietnam, Indonesia, etc).
People don't build aircraft on military bases, they build them in civilian-run factories. Workers do take work home with them. Some stuff is "only" ITAR-controlled, some stuff is more closely regulated.