[ARC5] "What's Old is New..."

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From: J Mcvey via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> 
Date: 08/08/2017  9:52 AM  (GMT-05:00) 
To: David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com>,milsurplus at mailman.qth.net,ARC-5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> 
Subject: Re: [ARC5] "What's Old is New..." 
 
David,

I look at the modern military communications and have often wondered the same thing.
Everything is satellite and digital.  If a hostile power wants to put our military out of business,
all they have to do is blow up the satellites! Most critical communications and GPS will be gone.

I may be incorrect, but I think most of the HF, vhf and Uhf ground radios are being replaced by satcom.
NAto still uses them, but new generation US equipment is mostly microwave.

We will end up using obsolete equipment in battle like the low-tech  battle star Galactica was the only ship to survive the Cylon computer virus. Life imitating art?

Also , last year,Elon Musk sounded expressed concern about AI technology getting out of control. He said that he that the Terminator movie may end up being prophetic if we are not careful.
Now a recent Facebook AI experiment was shut down. The AI computers in the experiment were supposed to communicate with each other in english so that engineers could monitor the inter-system communication. However, after a while, the machines developed their own language to communicate with each other instead of english. The engineers could not decipher it , so they pulled the plug!



On Tuesday, August 8, 2017 9:21 AM, David Stinson <arc5 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:


Interesting article.   After several debilitating “hacks” and spoofs of their
complex, IP-based, computer dependent Comm, Command and Control
contributed to incidents like the Iranian capture of two U.S. Navy craft
in the Persian Gulf and U.S. Drones being spoofed into enemy hands,
the U.S. military is investigating non-computer (and thus unhackable)
Radio-based communication and  navigation systems.
Also- the threat of an EMP and/or Anti-Sat attack as a “first strike”
is now seen as a real and potentially crippling threat.
 
Seems my Star Trek hero, Scotty, was right:

     “The more complicated they make the plumbing,
      the easier it is to stop-up the drain.”
 
"What's old is new again." Wonder if they will "discover" the simple,
very cheap and effective mode that can get a message through
when all the fancy computer stuff is hacked or fried: Morse Code.
 
Article:
http://tinyurl.com/y8cpjlph
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