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Even a cursory glance at the NSA ANT Catalog is enough to give one the impression, there's a whole other battlefield out there. Every now and then, almost year
by fit2rule 6y ago
Even a cursory glance at the NSA ANT Catalog is enough to give one the impression, there's a whole other battlefield out there.
Every now and then, almost yearly now, the conspiracy theory scene pings one of my favourite theories: the Russkies have the electromagnetic spectrum well and truly under their grasp, and can disable any other military simply by flicking the off switch. They've discovered some way to do this, and it works every time.
Its a far-fetched and bizarre concept, and surely there are detractors and supporters of the theory - but for the sake of a thought experiment, imagine it were the case.
Would you use this capability, much?
Or, would you use it sparingly, in such a way as to avoid detection - say, introducing the odd power-cycle glitch here, maybe a spike there - just enough to keep your target occupied, but not enough that they'd wise up to so much sabotage.
I mean, you wouldn't just fly over a US destroyer/carrier fleet, and demonstrate it, overtly, naturally...
Would it instead be better for people to believe such capabilities are impossible - and if this is the case, how do we prevent a hundred years of Tesla's and Theremins' from stumbling onto the technique again, hmm...
- Nasrudith 6y agoThe main issue with that is the larger implications - believed electromagnetic spectrum limitations asidd why the hell bother acting like a gaslighting scooby doo villains if when there are so many other greater applications starting with mesh network radios that don't take power, just "we are the only ones allowed electronic targetting" let alone any hypothetical masteries to allow for optical rectennas without the limitations which keep them from obsoleting solar panels. It stinks of a bluff and playing a parlor trick of early RFIDs as far larger than it is.
- vbezhenar 6y agoI'm sure that US, Chinese, Israeli spies would steal that kind of tech, so it would be used by many countries and eventually leaked one way or another.
- tlear 6y agoRussia is much harder to penetrate for Chinese then US. Giving out secret like that is a death sentence, even if you manage to leave Russia there is a decent chance they will hunt you down and kill you in a very unpleasant manner. US ability to recruit within Russia is also very limited. Something like that would not be picked up by sigint. Russia did go all in on electronic warfare, I think US missed a golden opportunity to work with/through Ukraine to test their systems against Russian ones. If they could capture one it would be a gold mine of intel.
- heavenlyblue 6y ago- Imagine if penguins actually had an ability to create portals to other side of the universe? It actually makes sense that they don’t show us that capability because we would quickly try to steal it from them... - Imagine if Chinese have actually invented coronavirus? It would actually make sense to start it in their own country so that nobody would realise it was their invention. - Jet fuel doesn’t melt steel beams
- fit2rule 6y agoImagine if we could put a metal object in the sky that would allow us to talk to anyone in the world instantly? Imagine if we could take someones blood, clean it, and put it back .. Imagine if we could gain access to the NSA's extensive documents and discover what they're really doing with that tax-payer money .. I mean, Imagine ..