Android goes to war

On a sunny day (Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:24:37 -0600) it happened don wrote in :

Includes some *light* encryption? Imagine what an opponent can do with your 'plane and buddy list' with coordinates :-) US will never win a war that way, never. That leaves the nukes... but soon everybody and their cat will have one of those too.

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rdinates :-)

Actually, with enough open-sourced military hardware like that out on the battlefield, "conventional", or even "unconventional" war will be simply impossible. Nobody will be willing to power up their "smart" weapons because they won't know who will gain control of it in the critical first few seconds.

Also, too many technologies are being overlooked. If you're worried about "insurgents" blowing up your convoys with cellphone-triggered IEDs, why not just mount a cellphone jammer on every vehicle? Oh, wait, that also nullifies half your own assets...

f those too.

True, but the "little boys" (i. e. Iran, Pakistan, etc.) can't absorb the damage from even a "limited engagement" that the "big boys" (i. e. the US, Russia, France etc.) can, and they only have the resources to participate in such an engagement. Trouble is, they'd piss off their enemy's friends, (or even non-friends with their own agenda, like China) who would swat them into nonexistence rather than allow WWIII to get started. The "little boys" know all this of course; you recall the speculation that Qadafi "blinked" because of cowardice? Nonsense, he did so to keep from being obliterated.

Mark L. Fergerson