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Howard Berkowitz wrote:
In article , (Derek Lyons) wrote: Howard Berkowitz wrote: You are missing asymmetry. Archimedes' enemies used low tech, just lots of it. Losing a major C3I node, or the logistics network, is much more of a problem to a high-tech invader. And it's unlikely as hell that you with your laptop are going to get acess to any such. After spending a fair bit of time in advisory groups to the National Communications System, and the current telecom and advisory groups, I will point out that if you can defeat the underlying transmission system, the higher-layer application, often using commercial transmission facilities, is neutralized. That's fine for disabling DoD systems, important, but non tactical. I have a hard time believing that a high-tech invader would rely on US commercial transmission facilities. D. -- The STS-107 Columbia Loss FAQ can be found at the following URLs: Text-Only Version: http://www.io.com/~o_m/columbia_loss_faq.html Enhanced HTML Version: http://www.io.com/~o_m/columbia_loss_faq_x.html Corrections, comments, and additions should be e-mailed to , as well as posted to sci.space.history and sci.space.shuttle for discussion. |
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Howard Berkowitz writes:
In article , (John Schilling) wrote: Exactly. I am _not_ in favor of gun confiscation, but I really can't accept the idea of the unorganized militia, with sporting weapons, deterring either regulars or invaders. With a laptop and intimate knowledge of communications networks, I can be a MUCH nastier deterrent. More likely, you can come to the same end as Archimedes, accomplishing no more in the end than one guy with a hunting rifle. You are missing asymmetry. Archimedes' enemies used low tech, just lots of it. Losing a major C3I node, or the logistics network, is much more of a problem to a high-tech invader. Even high-tech invaders still use tens or hundreds of thousands of men with purely mechanical weapons guided by the unaugmented human eye and brain, who can use all the traditional low-tech methods of hunting down the fool who thinks his Archimedean brain alone will triumph over their brain and brawn combined. Whereupon they can get on with repairing the C3I node and you can get on with bleeding out on the floor. Now, with a laptop *and* a rifle, you can accomplish a lot more than with either alone. On the defensive side, every detective with a hunch as to where that nuisance with the laptop is, every house-to-house search for same, has to allocate a SWAT team per target instead of just a couple beat cops. Which means the whole process takes them longer for the same available resources and gives you that much more time to make a nuisance of yourself with the laptop. Ahem. If one tracks many of the more destructive hacking attempts, the computer delivering the attack, the hacker, and the target often are on different continents. Those SWAT teams had better have LONG range. Hacking attempts against the academic and commercial internet, yes. Military operations, outside of bad technothriller movies and novels, are not dependant on the global internet. You can hinder the enemy's R&D and procurement efforts and so delay his acquisition of newer and better guns, but if you are wholly unarmed the guns he's already got are more than sufficient. And the networks that help coordinate his gunmen at the operational level, the ones which are of immediate concern to you, are not so broadly distributed. The enemy has no reason to put a node, terminal, or other access point anywhere he doesn't have at least a minimal military presence, and those are pretty much by definition places where his SWAT teams can reach. For that matter, you'll probably have to deal with armed enemy soldiers one way or another just to get terminal access in the first place. -- *John Schilling * "Anything worth doing, * *Member:AIAA,NRA,ACLU,SAS,LP * is worth doing for money" * *Chief Scientist & General Partner * -13th Rule of Acquisition * *White Elephant Research, LLC * "There is no substitute * * for success" * *661-951-9107 or 661-275-6795 * -58th Rule of Acquisition * |
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