What products are most at risk. What are easiest to replace to reduce risk? Hardest to replace?

  • Auli@lemmy.ca
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    2 hours ago

    Our infrastructure. All our core network switches which are all American companies. Could you imagine if they did this the response around the world.

  • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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    GPS. The system can be turned off in specific regions (no idea how, it’s classified, but they’ve actually done it so it’s not just a wild notion), and portions of the signal are already encrypted such that they’re only available to the US military. There would be little stopping them from sending altered signals or just turning it off.

    Many missile systems, aircraft and fighting vehicles rely on GPS to function as expected.

    • Troy@lemmy.caOPM
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      This is a fair take. However, it does presuppose that we would have sufficient missile systems, aircraft, or fighting vehicles that it would matter.

      I have a lot of GNSS units that allow you to choose which networks they’re receiving (GPS, Glonass, Galileo, etc.). I’ve never tried to turn off GPS just to see – might be interesting as an experiment.

    • P00ptart@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      They no longer add in inaccuracies to non-us military GPS units. That ended like 20 years ago?

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        15 hours ago

        Oh, not inaccuracies. Just portions of the signal only available to the military. The original intent was to limit accuracy, and now it’s more to counter spoofing, but it’s still there, just upgraded.

  • Smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works
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    Stop selling electricity to them. With luck that causes a cascade failure, or blackouts, in border states and gives them something else to worry about.

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    1 day ago

    Assume any/all networking equipment is backdoored or has an undisclosed zero day usable by the US government.

  • DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works
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    iPhones wouldn’t be that bad I don’t think. Cell/internet infrastructure would be much worse.

    American vehicles would be harder to replace. We know Teslas can and have been remotely disabled in places where Tesla didn’t want them being used. I’d be surprised if the big three didn’t have remote killswitches in their vehicles already.

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      It’s not even a secret. Almost all modern cars do as part of remote service packages. It’s what let’s you ask them to unlock your car, do remote start via a phone app, or let’s the police request a remote shutdown of a stolen car.

      • Blaster M@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        Fix that by disconnecting the cellular antenna in the car and the telematics unit. You may need a bypass harness on some modern cars that “responds” to connectivity pings in the car’s canbus, but otherwise you can’t kill what’s not connected. :3