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Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages

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Re: Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages

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They can already perform accurate strikes without GPS with terrain following and INS so not sure this would actually help it that much.

My point wasn't about it being necessary. The point is what it may happen as part of complex engineering involving multiple components and large organizations. And/or by integrating consumer tech - the cheap consumer drones are actively used in the modern war and they may have such fallback mode which would be fine for civilian drone, until of course the drone gets a real warhead attached :)

For something slow moving like a quadcopter drone munition it might be viable but it seems like you'd not get good signal until it was too late to maneuver if it were in something fast moving like a guided bomb or cruise missile flying down.

Also the probability that power is still functioning long into a conflict is pretty low so it may only really be useful for early strikes.

Re: Bypassing regulatory locks, hacking AirPods and Faraday cages

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It is less intuitive for me as an outsider that a trillion would be a million million millions instead of a billion billions

You can make an argument for that, but neither system does that so it's not very relevant to the choice. I think an exponential system would do better to have a different naming scheme.

Yes, and something like scientific notation is used fairly often even in lay contexts.

Eg it's common to read sentences like the following in popular science texts: 'ACME produces one quintillion widgets per year, that's a one followed eighteen zeroes.' The second half is basically scientific notation, but written out.

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