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Re:To protect against weaponized drones, we must understand ... by jvanderbot on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @12:41PM (#27450034)
Sure. 'Think of the possibilities' is a fun exercise. I'm more in the 'will it scale' camp, that's all.

I've actually worked in this area before. There's more attention on this than you might imagine, and less than it deserves. There's also better ways to use drones to cause terror and disrupt operations that I obv won't get into. Maybe its not tech fantasy as I originally said, but it is much further out than you originally said as well, and it's a bit overkill. If you wanted to have the effect of causing fear in soldiers using drones, I think (but don't know) there are easier ways that don't require the same limiting assumptuons about technology, logistics and scaling.

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Re:To protect against weaponized drones, we must understand ... by kragen on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @01:34PM (#27450715)
So, what do you think we can do to prevent it?
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Re:To protect against weaponized drones, we must understand ... by jvanderbot on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @03:00PM (#27451717)
Nice try, China.
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Re:To protect against weaponized drones, we must understand ... by kragen on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @04:13PM (#27452550)
Heh! Actually, although I'm in Argentina, I thoroughly endorse 墨子's defensive program: if every country is safe against attacks, then all the people will be safe, while if every country is vulnerable to attacks, then life will be bitter and filled with grief. So, just as 墨子's followers worked to improve the fortifications of the various states of China so that none could gain by attacking another, I think we should figure out how to reduce our collective vulnerability to this kind of drone-swarm attack.

Except that I think it's kind of impossible and we are basically doomed.

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Re:To protect against weaponized drones, we must understand ... by jvanderbot on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @06:21PM (#27454062)
Minus the emotional wording, this has been the justification for large standing militaries in every nation state ever. I mean, it's the Dept of Defense here in the US.
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Re:To protect against weaponized drones, we must understand ... by kragen on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @06:26PM (#27454104)
Right, and the US isn't even a nation-state, despite the persistent efforts of certain reactionary groups to change that. But it's a backwards justification, because thousands of years of history show us that large standing militaries increase the risk of war, while fortifications diminish it.
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