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

[David Stinson]

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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