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When it comes to abuse of trust, I'm worried about goods coming from China. Israel's compromise of the pager supply chain shows that innocuous seeming devices c
by hayst4ck 1y ago
When it comes to abuse of trust, I'm worried about goods coming from China. Israel's compromise of the pager supply chain shows that innocuous seeming devices can be weaponized via trust.
Imagine if every IoT appliance decided to burn down/self destruct and every phone with satellite connectivity decided to weaponize its battery pack. If every car with cell service connectivity decided to accelerate with brakes disabled at once. If every access point/router decided to make itself inoperable/turned into a bot net removing home internet all at once and likely shifting traffic to cell towers which could overload them resulting in zero communication. Imagine that as many devices as possible were programmed or constructed in a way to create failure on a specific date or period.
Sounds insane, but I would have said the pager thing sounds insane too. All those things definitely sounds possible to me.
- euroderf 1y agoSo why doesn't Black Mirror have an episode where the PRC are the bad guys?
- dfex 1y agoDragon Day[1] beat them to it [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772262/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772262/
- nobodyandproud 1y agoNervously eyeing my robo vacs.
- mmasu 1y agoi recently heard a podcast where a16z claimed this was one of the main reasons why you need a US electric vehicle and robotic industry - what if Chinese device could be weaponized at will in the event of a conflict?
- ak217 1y agoA less far-fetched reason is that modern EV and robotics technology (lithium ion and LFP batteries, motors, power electronics, embedded electronics, RF electronics etc) is dual-use and absolutely crucial for building all modern weapons
- morkalork 1y agoIt's not far fetched, not only is it perfectly feasible, there's now been precedence. If nation-state wants any hope of security, they need to have control of the entire stack. That's why countries are banning Huawei 5G networking equipment.
- salawat 1y agoDing, ding, ding. Welcome to the "Circus of Globalist's Externalities come home to Roost!" At a certain point, you as a country can only be said to be capable of what you can do without external aid. The possibility that your Allies will always remain as such, either at their behest, or your own, is simply never zero. Queue the Globalist's in the crowd going "The entire point was to maximize the amount of time before peace broke down through economic interdependence. Wrong. They optimized for that metric while maximizing the vulnerability to supply chain based attacks. They made individual countries less resilient and accepted the risk that if a much greater worldwide action potential was actually reached, everyone would be potentially fucked.
- mrheosuper 1y agoThis is exactly why you should not let your Iot devices connect to Internet.