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> Even military applications aside, it's massively commercially useful to be able to push a button and disable a competitor's communications (or a whole nationf
by chabad360 6y ago
> Even military applications aside, it's massively commercially useful to be able to push a button and disable a competitor's communications (or a whole nationfull of competitors).
How would that not be illegal/an act of war?
- jjoonathan 6y agoWhy would being illegal / an act of war necessarily stop it from happening?
- dapids 6y agoI think the parent comment is referring to why that as an option would be beneficial to a commercial entity outside of a military application.
- sneak 6y agoAttribution becomes quite difficult, for one. Stealth satellites are a thing; it's possible that stealth antisatellite satellites are also a thing, or small stealth satellite-killer weapons that detach/separate from known, non-stealth satellites.