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Re:How We Reverse Engineered the Cuban “Sonic Weapon” Attack... by mc32 on Thursday July 22, 2021 @02:11PM (#27922304)
Or countermeasure going haywire.
Re:How We Reverse Engineered the Cuban “Sonic Weapon” Attack... by mcguire on Thursday July 22, 2021 @02:34PM (#27922557)
From the article:

"While the equipment we used in our Cuban re-creation is relatively bulky, ultrasonic emitters can be quite tiny, no larger than a piece of Rolo candy. Online, we found a manufacturer in Russia that sells a fashionable leather clutch that conceals an ultrasonic emitter, presumably to jam recording devices at cocktail parties. We also found electronics stores that carry high- power ultrasonic jammers that cause microphones to malfunction. One advertised jammer emits 120-dB ultrasonic interference at a distance of 1 meter. That’s like standing next to a chainsaw. If a signal from that caliber jammer were to combine with a second ultrasonic source, audible by-products could result."

Consider an countermeasure ultrasonic emitter intended to jam microphones in proximity to, say, a spy emitter using ultrasonic sound as a carrier wave for a microphone, as described in the article.

Re:How We Reverse Engineered the Cuban “Sonic Weapon” Attack... by eli on Thursday July 22, 2021 @02:14PM (#27922344)
Or someone just had a bad headache. I don't think it's very likely that there's a secret energy weapon hidden in the bushes near the whitehouse.
Re:How We Reverse Engineered the Cuban “Sonic Weapon” Attack... by SeanLuke on Thursday July 22, 2021 @02:13PM (#27922335)
Or countermeasure going haywire. At any rate, not cicadas.
Re:How We Reverse Engineered the Cuban “Sonic Weapon” Attack... by mc32 on Thursday July 22, 2021 @02:17PM (#27922369)
Yes, that seems like an obvious dead end, if not decoy.