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    Hackers could launch microwave attacks from orbitting com-sats.

    The satellite communications that ships, planes and the military use to connect to the internet are vulnerable to hackers that, in the worst-case scenario, could carry out “cyber-physical attacks”, turning satellite antennas into weapons that operate, essentially, like microwave ovens, warns an information security specialist. “Essentially, the theoretical cases I developed four years ago are no longer theoretical.”
    https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...lanes-military
    Well, heck, that sucks.

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    I have been raising this issue for years.
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    Global warming? That's another question now, or is that the context in which you raised the issue?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lummy View Post
    Global warming? That's another question now, or is that the context in which you raised the issue?
    COMSEC,

    you know what that means.
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    Uncle Ferd not worried...

    ... he got his tin-foil hat on.

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