On 2/13/2016 2:56 AM, Onno Meyer wrote:
Getting more exotic, it might be a small info-war hacking device
which blasts through armor to get at the juicy internal electronics.
That could be pretty sweet, if you can insert "enemy targets" which
are actually friendlies, you can get the tanks to shoot their own
allies.
How is doing that from contact range going to be easier than remote
hacking? It would be silly if there were unprotected USB ports on the
outside of a battlesuit.
Actually, much equipment foolishly trusts its internal network. Such as
cars, which if you hook into them physically, make it trivial to spoof
brake or acceleration commands. Because, designers think, who is going
to be creating fake commands from INSIDE the vehicle?
This is what I was thinking with the sticky hacking grenades. They stick
to the tank at a target point, fire an armor penetrator into the tank,
and then insert probes directly into the tank's internal network.
Sensors have to be near the outside of the armor so getting into their
network wiring or optic fiber should be pretty easy.
Or if all internal communications are authenticated with encryption, it
could try to overload the sensor processing hardware with high voltage
spikes into electronics or extra intense lasers into fiber optics,
possibly blinding the entire tank if it doesn't have enough redundancy.
So there doesn't need to be an unprotected USB port on the outside. The
explosive makes its own port.
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