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A rough rule of thumb from watching stealth aircraft development and the subsequent retrospective stories over the years: what you don't know is about 15 years
by regularfry 5y ago
A rough rule of thumb from watching stealth aircraft development and the subsequent retrospective stories over the years: what you don't know is about 15 years ahead of what you do. It might be that things have compressed since then, and it might be that stealth was always a special case, but it wouldn't surprise me if the absolute cutting edge is still that far ahead in some areas.
- LogonType10 5y agoThis is the expectation, and the reality is that the government still uses Windows XP. Stealth tech and other military signature detection/evasion techs are probably just exceptional.
- Wonnk13 5y agogreat point- I think it's strongly correlated to budget. JSOC? probably 10 years ahead due to unlimited/black budget. The average gs-13 commuting to the Pentagon? Bottom of the barrel tech.
- LogonType10 5y agoFrom your profile--do you mean hacking in the software development sense or the security sense?
- Wonnk13 5y agoin the for-fun / i'm such a shitty person i can't believe i hacked this together sense :) the rest is... classified. but quite boring.