RE: [GZG] [HIST] Military Hackers

Adrian spake thusly upon matters weighty: 

 OK, now they use the Internet just like
> everybody else, which is actually quite difficult to bring down given
how
> dispursed it is,

That was the point in building it (ARPANET and DOD). A disbursed 
network which could not be completely killed by any nuclear strike. 
Keep in mind that their are so many paths from A to B in the Net and 
so many possible hosts, it is hard to compromise the whole deal. But 
any given host is a much smaller and more hackable project. 

And if you think the Internet is at risk, your global telecom net 
(land lines) have some degree of risk, and your wireless networks 
(data and cellular) are totally vulnerable. 

 but think about the landline artillery control systems the
> Iraqi's had in the Gulf War.	They knew they'd be jammed, so they used
> physical landlines for communications and had a network set up all
over the
> place.  Sure, they still used radios and got jammed, and when the
allies
> started bombing and took out commo centres, they resorted to
motorcycle
> dispatch riders (hard to jam a guy on a bike carrying a piece of
paper...
> just hope he doesn't fall into a ditch)

The 7.62mm FMJ Jammer is the preferred method of solving this comms 
jamming crisis....

Fiber optic is good stuff for land line comms - can't be screwed up 
by EM, can't be picked up by EM inteferometry, hard to detect when 
buried, high data rate, tough cable. Now if only it was super 
flexible.... (and some is... just costly). But I can see mass use of 
this in the future. 

 
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