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It's so obvious this is the next stage of conflict. China could have thousands of these sleeper drones in the US. To preempt before a real conflict, it could si
by throw51319 6y ago
It's so obvious this is the next stage of conflict. China could have thousands of these sleeper drones in the US. To preempt before a real conflict, it could simultaneously take out most of the heads of state, causing chaos.
- javajosh 6y agoIt's worse than that. If you undermine chip fabrication to insert backdoors at the silicon level, you could disable...almost everything with an arbitrary signal. The only problem with this is that you, the attacker, need to be careful not to install the altered chips in your own infrastructure.
- pjc50 6y agoThe likely future is the other way round: frog boiling and border pushing, like at the border with India. China doesn't want to have a real conflict, it wants to keep poking and pushing until it gets what it want.
- Vysero 6y ago"China could have thousands of these sleeper drones in the US." -- Yeah, and 911 was an inside job! EDIT: If you think China has thousands of sleeper drones in the US you are on par with people who think 911 was an inside job, end of story. Down vote all you want but be sure to don your tin foil hats afterwards.
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- sudosysgen 6y agoI thought that it was made in the future tense, meaning that in the future they might acquire them.
- simion314 6y ago>China could have thousands of these sleeper drones Why is China your example and not X? There are other countries that use killer drones, do secret killing and kidnapping operations on other countries territories etc. I have the impression that a few years back you would have said Russia, then N Coreea and today China, like the big bad enemy is changing each few years depending on what politics need.
- RhysU 6y agoOceania had always been at war with Eastasia
- meaydinli 6y agoOr or or... Every now and then the balance of power shifts, global/regional powers fade and rise and now it is China's turn.
- simion314 6y agoHow did it shift from Russia to China, the same guys are still in power, the only guy that changed is Trump(I think he has mentioned China a lot but no idea if he caused this shift of attention or just using it).
- throw51319 6y agoIt's an axis to upset the normal order. The first time they've had the possibility of doing it in prob 50 years.
- stillsut 6y agoIt's foolish for a state actor leave the remnant pieces of an advanced weapon (like an autonomous drone) at the scene of a crime during an assassination. First because the uniqueness of the technology makes the actor identifiable, second because the country targeted will react more cohesively to this novel kind of cassus belli (e.g. news coverage of 1 drunk driving death vs 1 autonomous vehicle death) The good old fashion alternative is just a gunman. It's more plausibly deniable - e.g. still nobody is exactly sure what was going on with Lee Harvey Oswold and Jack Ruby - and it doesn't put the targeted country immediately on a war footing.
- sudosysgen 6y agoEasy. Create or puppet an insurgent group in the US, and make the code open source through Tor, posing as an anarchist or something.
- perl4ever 6y ago>it could simultaneously take out most of the heads of state, causing chaos Gee, chaos, that would be terrible.