I’ve seen reports that China’s electronic manufacturing is running 24 hrs now since this pager thing. They’re guaranteeing no production parts from outside China. All this sort of makes one look askance at all these electronic gadgets lying around. We always suspected Alexa of spying, but we never thought she would kill us.
They have no boundaries. But that production won't be for Westerners. We'll have to tough it out. But the Global South will become much more immune.
Including Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Azerbaijan. They'll wind up with a totally different internet as well. On a frequency totally incompatible to the West. I expect communications to essentially be sliced in half like the head off a pig or goat for roasting. Nothing in, nothing out to/from each half. We may still have some communications but probably not wordwide anymore.
One commenter in a discussion thread said most lithium ion batteries have a built in fan to prevent them from overheating (and then exploding). One presumes that is under more normal use parameters, though which wasn't addressed. This attack used a message sent to open a portal to the devices and then send some kind of electrical spike to heat the inserted explosive. It truly was electronic warfare for the light but old fashioned sabotage for the fuse.
WiFi connected (and I suspect even wired internet connected) devices are susceptible to cyber attacks. The video down at the end is kind of a California nut job (but I was married to one once upon a time and they're all like that but he was really intelligent, too), but he is right about so many people having these assistants, door chimes, security systems, refrigerators, washing machines, even vacuums and lawn equipment, that are all weapons to these controllers.
I don't personally think what happened this week is moving any needles yet. Most of that is still not driving that fast yet for most people. But PE is right that this will not stop. It will grow and spread.
The actual danger for the mass of humanity is systemic. What happens when world wide shipping to the West meets lots of Houthi hearted gremlins? Or countries that still trade with them find new partners with better terms and currencies. Our BRICS meeting is one month away with 5+ dozen applicant attendees expected. That could be a fuse for the coming mental dawning light explosions also building brick by brick now in human minds.
At some point the day comes where that switch gets flipped too. To create a dystopian supply crisis. That crisis will cause others including communications and diminishing resources/necessities. Something none of us has dealt with on a massive and continuing scale.
This war is like a ballet. It has its primas and its chorus, its solos and reprisals, its genius and its comedies. But overall it has symmetry. It keeps coming back to places it has been before, then breaks some kind of new ground. And repeat. That's because it's a psychological war. The important thing about this scene is that the evil doers used both shadowy (who the hell made it) pagers and obsolete (manufactured 15 years ago) radios to insert the incendiary material into. 1. Nothing is safe. 2. They got all those pager numbers and radio frequencies from somewhere (hacking something, spies, traitors?) 3. In the end, nothing would have happened without the order from Netanyahu.
So we watch. Probably see a blockade and attacks on Israel so hard that they start having serious problems with all of their supply chain. Didn't include it in the list but Delta Airlines cancelled flights through the end of the year. Cutting off air transport to Israel is huge because except through Jordan and Saudi everything moves by air. Saudi will be at BRICS next month. Jordan won't as far as I know.
The US has already moved at least half of its naval vessels out of the Mediterranean area. This Taiwanese company just did more to start the Pacific War than you can shake a stick at. All the players are repositioning now for that.
Like being on acid during a hurricane, it'll be fun,but spooky too. On a side note I wonder why all these hackers never attack the student loan office. That would make them equivalent to demigods in most people's eyes.
The parents of students especially who are all the ones really on the hook. That was designed to implode older people's savings/retirement as well as hobble new entrants to the Game of (Adult) Life.
It will be a wild ride. Fun is always different to different people because it's a choice. But most haven't realized that yet. You can have just as much fun parachuting without a parachute as with one. Until the end presumably; we just don't have many willing to try and attest to it. We are in a tiny test group. But we will survive to be able to attest to it at the end.
I’ve seen reports that China’s electronic manufacturing is running 24 hrs now since this pager thing. They’re guaranteeing no production parts from outside China. All this sort of makes one look askance at all these electronic gadgets lying around. We always suspected Alexa of spying, but we never thought she would kill us.
They have no boundaries. But that production won't be for Westerners. We'll have to tough it out. But the Global South will become much more immune.
Including Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Azerbaijan. They'll wind up with a totally different internet as well. On a frequency totally incompatible to the West. I expect communications to essentially be sliced in half like the head off a pig or goat for roasting. Nothing in, nothing out to/from each half. We may still have some communications but probably not wordwide anymore.
These pagers present a massive problem for high tech wars. Could the cellphones we us have similar features in them?
Maybe at least to cetch on fire if one went to a nonappoved site ?
The prospects are dawnting,but not without hope.
In the end, Ned Ludd bats last.
One commenter in a discussion thread said most lithium ion batteries have a built in fan to prevent them from overheating (and then exploding). One presumes that is under more normal use parameters, though which wasn't addressed. This attack used a message sent to open a portal to the devices and then send some kind of electrical spike to heat the inserted explosive. It truly was electronic warfare for the light but old fashioned sabotage for the fuse.
WiFi connected (and I suspect even wired internet connected) devices are susceptible to cyber attacks. The video down at the end is kind of a California nut job (but I was married to one once upon a time and they're all like that but he was really intelligent, too), but he is right about so many people having these assistants, door chimes, security systems, refrigerators, washing machines, even vacuums and lawn equipment, that are all weapons to these controllers.
I don't personally think what happened this week is moving any needles yet. Most of that is still not driving that fast yet for most people. But PE is right that this will not stop. It will grow and spread.
The actual danger for the mass of humanity is systemic. What happens when world wide shipping to the West meets lots of Houthi hearted gremlins? Or countries that still trade with them find new partners with better terms and currencies. Our BRICS meeting is one month away with 5+ dozen applicant attendees expected. That could be a fuse for the coming mental dawning light explosions also building brick by brick now in human minds.
At some point the day comes where that switch gets flipped too. To create a dystopian supply crisis. That crisis will cause others including communications and diminishing resources/necessities. Something none of us has dealt with on a massive and continuing scale.
This war is like a ballet. It has its primas and its chorus, its solos and reprisals, its genius and its comedies. But overall it has symmetry. It keeps coming back to places it has been before, then breaks some kind of new ground. And repeat. That's because it's a psychological war. The important thing about this scene is that the evil doers used both shadowy (who the hell made it) pagers and obsolete (manufactured 15 years ago) radios to insert the incendiary material into. 1. Nothing is safe. 2. They got all those pager numbers and radio frequencies from somewhere (hacking something, spies, traitors?) 3. In the end, nothing would have happened without the order from Netanyahu.
So we watch. Probably see a blockade and attacks on Israel so hard that they start having serious problems with all of their supply chain. Didn't include it in the list but Delta Airlines cancelled flights through the end of the year. Cutting off air transport to Israel is huge because except through Jordan and Saudi everything moves by air. Saudi will be at BRICS next month. Jordan won't as far as I know.
The US has already moved at least half of its naval vessels out of the Mediterranean area. This Taiwanese company just did more to start the Pacific War than you can shake a stick at. All the players are repositioning now for that.
What a movie, right?
Like being on acid during a hurricane, it'll be fun,but spooky too. On a side note I wonder why all these hackers never attack the student loan office. That would make them equivalent to demigods in most people's eyes.
Love your work.
The parents of students especially who are all the ones really on the hook. That was designed to implode older people's savings/retirement as well as hobble new entrants to the Game of (Adult) Life.
It will be a wild ride. Fun is always different to different people because it's a choice. But most haven't realized that yet. You can have just as much fun parachuting without a parachute as with one. Until the end presumably; we just don't have many willing to try and attest to it. We are in a tiny test group. But we will survive to be able to attest to it at the end.
It'll be Fun! 👌